{"id":322550,"date":"2026-06-28T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:21:09","slug":"officials-old-arcade-machine-sparks-fire-port-charlotte-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322550\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Old arcade machine sparks fire | Port Charlotte News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEEP CREEK\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 A Charlotte County home was gutted by fire Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were sent to Navigator Road in the Deep Creek community at 6:51 a.m. for a home on fire, according to reports from Charlotte County Fire &amp; EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Crews could see a column of smoke as they approached the home.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Deep Creek Fire\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1176\" height=\"1762\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Charlotte County Fire &amp; EMS firefighter sprays inside a home in Deep Creek that was gutted by fire Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Charlotte County Fire &amp; EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Once there, firefighters found fire showing from two sides of the home and began trying to put it out.<\/p>\n<p>All the occupants of the home had gotten out and there were no pets inside.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were able to get the fire out, but not before it caused significant damage to large parts of the home.<\/p>\n<p>A Charlotte County investigator determined the fire started accidentally. It was caused by old arcade game machine inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries reported and fire officials contacted the American Red Cross to assist the displaced family.<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross stated it assisted five adults and two children impacted by the blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEEP CREEK\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 A Charlotte County home was gutted by fire Saturday.\u00a0 Firefighters were sent to Navigator Road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,115],"class_list":["post-322550","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322550","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=322550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}