{"id":330745,"date":"2026-07-06T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:04:08","slug":"family-3-hollywood-police-officers-hospitalized-after-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330745\/","title":{"rendered":"Family, 3 Hollywood police officers hospitalized after apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 A family and three Hollywood police officers were hospitalized Monday morning after a fire erupted inside of a two-story apartment unit in Hollywood, fire rescue officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/06\/familia-y-tres-policias-son-hospitalizados-tras-incendio-en-hollywood\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/06\/familia-y-tres-policias-son-hospitalizados-tras-incendio-en-hollywood\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to first responders, Hollywood firefighters responded to the residential fire at approximately 6:08 a.m. in the 2800 block of Pierce Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three Hollywood police officers, however, arrived first and immediately went inside the home to search for the trapped victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters, who arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the apartment, arrived a short time later and also immediately began searching for the apartment\u2019s occupants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Hollywood Fire Rescue spokeswoman Chai Kauffman, firefighters rescued a mother and her two young children from the second floor of the apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The children\u2019s grandfather, a man in his 70s, escaped by breaking a second-floor window before climbing out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe learned that a male in his 70s had broke a window from the second floor and was able to escape, but he sustained a major head injury,\u201d Kauffman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The grandfather and children were taken to a hospital, and the three Hollywood police officers were also hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said the officers were treated for smoke inhalation. The conditions of the man and his two grandchildren have not been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A family and three Hollywood police officers were hospitalized Monday morning after a fire erupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-330745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330745","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=330745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}