TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Smoke pouring from the roof of a single-story home on Hampton Avenue prompted a quick response from Tallahassee firefighters Friday morning.<\/p>\n
At about 8:47 a.m. on July 11, the Tallahassee Fire Department was dispatched to a reported residential structure fire on Hampton Avenue. Crews from Station 3 arrived in less than five minutes and found smoke coming from the roof.<\/p>\n
Firefighters entered the home, located the fire in the attic and quickly extinguished it. Primary and secondary searches confirmed no one was inside the residence.<\/p>\n
The home was unoccupied at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported. The cause is believed to be electrical in nature, with a possible lightning strike identified as a contributing factor.<\/p>\n
City of Tallahassee Utilities, the Tallahassee Police Department and Leon County EMS assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Smoke pouring from the roof of a single-story home on Hampton Avenue prompted a quick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-338334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338334","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=338334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}