{"id":324575,"date":"2026-06-30T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324575\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:40:08","slug":"lightning-strikes-cape-coral-home-injures-1-kills-family-cat-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324575\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes Cape Coral home, injures 1, kills family cat | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A lightning strike sparked a fire in a Cape Coral home Monday evening, sending one person to the hospital and leaving a family pet behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out in the attic of a home at 35th Avenue Northwest and Kismet Parkway after lightning struck the structure. Heavy smoke filled the home as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coral Fire Department responded to the scene and provided details about the incident. They said three people, two cats and a dog were inside the home at the time of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All three residents escaped safely and managed to bring one cat and the dog with them. A second cat hid inside the home and did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One person was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and was last reported in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WINK News will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A lightning strike sparked a fire in a Cape Coral home Monday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-324575","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-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324575","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=324575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}