{"id":314768,"date":"2026-06-21T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:34:17","slug":"deadly-fire-at-dominican-republic-luxury-resort-hotel-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314768\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly fire at Dominican Republic luxury resort hotel: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One tourist died in a massive fire at a resort in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

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A massive fire ripped through a popular luxury resort in the Dominican Republic\u2014 killing at least one tourist and forcing over 1,600 people to evacuate, authorities say.<\/p>\n

An Italian woman died on Friday due to the fire at Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel in Bayah\u00edbe, a resort town close to La Romana and Casa de Campo, according to Dominican newspaper Listin Diario.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Emergency Operations Center (COE) in conjunction with various regional fire departments contained the fire,\u201d a spokesperson for the Dominican Republic Department of Tourism told the Miami Herald in a statement.<\/p>\n

The hotel was operating at close to 84% occupancy at the time of the fire, authorities said. Around 1,690 people were evacuated, which included guests, staff and contractors.<\/p>\n

Authorities confirmed the fire was an isolated incident at a single hotel, and other properties and tourism hubs nearby were not affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are saddened that a guest perished, and we send our thoughts to the family, while we await autopsy results to determine the cause,\u201d the Department of Tourism said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire is under investigation and the hotel will remain closed until further notice.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published June 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM.<\/p>\n

Milena Malaver<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/p>\n

Milena Malaver covers crime and breaking news for the Miami Herald. She was born and raised in Miami-Dade and is a graduate of Florida International University. She joined the Herald shortly after graduating.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One tourist died in a massive fire at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Getty Images A massive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-314768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314768","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=314768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}