{"id":339758,"date":"2026-07-14T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339758\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:37:08","slug":"family-of-four-escape-house-fire-in-cape-coral-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339758\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of four escape house fire in Cape Coral | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A family of four and their dog escaped a house fire early Tuesday morning after working smoke alarms alerted them to danger.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Cape+Coral+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Coral<\/a> firefighters responded to a residential structure fire in the 2200 block of SE 15th St. at approximately 4:15 a.m. Crews arrived to find flames coming through the roof of the home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Two adults and two children were safely evacuated before firefighters arrived. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and prevented it from spreading beyond the area around the garage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The home is considered a total loss due to the extent of the damage. Preliminary findings indicate the fire likely started in a shed outside the home before spreading into the attic.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The exact cause remains under investigation by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=State+Fire+Marshal%27s+Office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office<\/a>. Officials said the outcome could have been far worse without working smoke alarms.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A family of four and their dog escaped a house fire early Tuesday morning after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-339758","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\/339758","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=339758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}