{"id":295437,"date":"2026-06-04T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295437\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:10:11","slug":"delivery-driver-saves-resident-from-house-fire-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295437\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivery driver saves resident from house fire in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delivery driver saves resident from house fire on Southwest 12th Place in Cape Coral<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e61ebd32-1a1a-4bbd-9ca3-2a67f8103004_1769629819.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"James Curtis\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A delivery driver rescued a person inside a home from a fire on Southwest 12th Place in Cape Coral on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the Cape Coral Fire Department, crews arrived just after 6 p.m. to find the resident outside the home after the driver, Adam Cannon, noticed smoke, heard someone calling for help and rushed in to save the person.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Cannon was presented with a Community Recognition Coin for helping the resident.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Crews said they extinguished the fire, but a dog and a cat inside the home died.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivery driver saves resident from house fire on Southwest 12th Place in Cape Coral CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,123480,123479,121031,88176],"class_list":["post-295437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-streams","tag-us-privacy-notice-term","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wbbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295437","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=295437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}