{"id":378527,"date":"2026-08-22T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378527\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:44:22","slug":"7-residents-2-cats-displaced-after-fort-lauderdale-home-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378527\/","title":{"rendered":"7 residents, 2 cats displaced after Fort Lauderdale home catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 1:37 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\/6SJR24DUWNFAHNW2RM26P4VW54.png\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A house fire displaced seven residents and two cats Saturday morning in unincorporated Fort Lauderdale, authorities confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/22\/incendio-en-casa-de-fort-lauderdale-deja-a-siete-residentes-y-dos-gatos-desplazados\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/22\/incendio-en-casa-de-fort-lauderdale-deja-a-siete-residentes-y-dos-gatos-desplazados\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Battalion Chief Michael Kane, a spokesman for Broward Fire Rescue, crews responded to a fire at a home near the 600 block of Northwest 24th Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kane said firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames coming from a second-floor room at the rear of the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said crews launched an \u201caggressive interior attack and contained the fire to a single room.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire was extinguished about 15 minutes after firefighters arrived, according to Kane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said no injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Florida State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" 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\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM Updated:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 1:37 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-378527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378527","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=378527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}