{"id":311639,"date":"2026-06-18T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311639\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:37:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-tiki-hut-home-catch-fire-displacing-4-people-3-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311639\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale tiki hut, home catch fire displacing 4 people, 3 dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in Fort Lauderdale after officials said that a tiki hut and home caught fire early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, 911 callers reported a blaze along the 1800 block of Southwest 23rd Avenue just before 5:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The first fire units arrived at the scene minutes later and found that a tiki hut had caught fire behind a rental property and then spread to a nearby home.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said that four people were able to safely evacuate the home, as well as their three dogs.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said that a fire investigator was headed to the scene to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, fire officials said, it&#8217;s unknown whether the blaze began in the occupied home or the vacant rental property next door.<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross has also been called in to assist those who were displaced as a result of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Fort Lauderdale after officials said that a tiki hut and home caught fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,855,249,251,250,807],"class_list":["post-311639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fire","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311639","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=311639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}