{"id":34225,"date":"2025-11-05T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:24:11","slug":"firefighters-respond-to-fire-on-useppa-island-in-lee-county-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34225\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters respond to fire on Useppa Island in Lee County, Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOKEELIA, Fla. \u2014 The Pine Island Fire Department said it responded to an active fire on Useppa Island, Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The Useppa Fire Chief told us the fire started from a cigarette smoldering in a bucket on exterior of building from the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Crews told Fox 4 that there are no injuries, thankfully, after they were called around 6 a.m. As of 8 a.m., crews were still on scene. <\/p>\n<p>Fox 4 is working to learn more about the cause and how serious the damage is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOKEELIA, Fla. \u2014 The Pine Island Fire Department said it responded to an active fire on Useppa Island,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,23886,23887,13890,23888,23885,23889],"class_list":{"0":"post-34225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-fire-dept","12":"tag-matlacha-fire-dept","13":"tag-matlacha-florida","14":"tag-pine-isl-fire-dept","15":"tag-pine-island-florida","16":"tag-useppa-island"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225","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=34225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}