{"id":285170,"date":"2026-05-26T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285170\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:33:11","slug":"couple-in-law-enforcement-recovers-after-surviving-house-fire-in-florida-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285170\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple in law enforcement recovers after surviving house fire in Florida Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONROE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Mike Pettee and Tiffany Rodda are usually the ones responding to 911 calls for help in the Florida Keys, but a recent fire at their home changed that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Their two Belgian mallenois puppies were barking in the middle of the night on May 7 in Big Pine Key. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey never bark. They don\u2019t leave our side. We were both sleeping,\u201d said Pettee, a Key West Police Department motorman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rodda, a Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy, said Pettee woke her up and said, \u201cWe have to go! The house is on fire!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The puppies\u2019 barks turned into crying, and they heard shots fired. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBecause we are both law enforcement, we have firearms, and they\u2019re ready to go, and the rounds start going off,\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They both ducked for cover. Pettee\u2019s hands were burned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t remember much after that,\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire rescue personnel airlifted both of them to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pettee was on a ventilator in a medically induced coma for 13 days. He also suffered burns to his face and head. Rodda suffered smoke inhalation and contusions. Their two Belgian mallenois puppies died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Mike Pettee and Tiffany Rodda are usually the ones responding to 911 calls for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-285170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}