{"id":358335,"date":"2026-07-31T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358335\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:54:08","slug":"fire-crews-contain-blaze-at-historic-fort-myers-home-no-injuries-reported-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358335\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews contain blaze at historic Fort Myers home, no injuries reported | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A fire broke out in a nearly 100-year-old home that had been converted into an efficiency with multiple electrical panels and individual rooms, according to Fort Myers Fire Chief McMillion.<\/p>\n<p>The owner was on scene when the fire started and attempted to rescue some of his equipment. He was treated by Lee County EMS but did not require transport to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Crews brought the fire under control and are now searching for hotspots to ensure no fires remain in void spaces. The 2,000-square-foot structure was built in 1926.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fire crews contain blaze at historic Fort Myers home, no injuries reported\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported to any patients or fire crew members. Florida Power &amp; Light is on scene managing power for the area.<\/p>\n<p>Fire investigators from the City of Fort Myers are waiting to begin their investigation of the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A fire broke out in a nearly 100-year-old home that had been converted into an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,2837,897],"class_list":["post-358335","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-florida","tag-florida-power-light","tag-fort-myers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358335","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=358335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}