{"id":376766,"date":"2026-08-20T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:24:37","slug":"red-cross-fire-affects-35-after-damaging-18-apartments-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376766\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross: Fire affects 35 after damaging 18 apartments in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WN5HISOWXVDS7NRYORKBKZE6MU.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>The City of Miami Department of Fire Rescue released this photo of an apartment that was damaged in a fire on Wednesday at 2110 West Flagler Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A fire damaged a three-story apartment building on Wednesday in Miami\u2019s Little Havana neighborhood, causing residents and their pets to be homeless. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A group of 35 adults needed help after 18 apartments suffered damage along West Flagler Street, according to a statement by the American Red Cross on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/E7FVFKNT7RHTPDVA66ZHQH3LZI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>MIAMI FIRE: The City of Miami Department of Fire Rescue released this photo of an apartment building that was damaged on Wednesday at 2110 West Flagler Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters responded to the building at about 3:25 p.m. on Wednesday, near Southwest 21st Avenue, according to Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFirefighters quickly stretched hose lines and began an aggressive interior fire attack while crews conducted searches of all three floors,\u201d Sanchez wrote in a statement. \u201cAll areas were searched and determined to be clear. The fire was rapidly spreading through the crawl spaces, walls, and attic areas of the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BYKTJMOMX5AZDLZ7NSRGHDQUNQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>MIAMI FIRE: The City of Miami Department of Fire Rescue released this photo of an apartment building that was damaged on Wednesday at 2110 West Flagler Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters used thermal imaging cameras and a drone to find hidden hotspots, the department\u2019s Ambu Bus provided temporary shelter, and no one was injured, according to Sanchez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the fire remained under investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editors Sofia Mendez and Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM Updated:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandThe City of Miami Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-376766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376766","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=376766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}