{"id":384571,"date":"2026-08-29T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384571\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:32:28","slug":"flames-tear-through-structure-on-buckingham-road-in-fort-myers-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384571\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames tear through structure on Buckingham Road in Fort Myers | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A second-alarm fire broke out Friday night at a church on Buckingham Road in the Tice Fire District.<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened at 4241 Buckingham Road around 10:25 p.m. First-arriving crews found flames burning through the roof, according to the Lehigh Acres Fire District.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"BUCKINGHAM FIRE\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Lehigh crews responded to assist Tice firefighters, and the fire remained active for some time as crews worked to extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n<p>WINK News viewer Sarah Leigh witnessed the fire and sent pictures and videos showing the extent of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation. The Bureau of Fire, Arson, and Explosion Investigations will likely handle the investigation because the structure is a church, according to Lehigh Acres Fire District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A second-alarm fire broke out Friday night at a church on Buckingham Road in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,115],"class_list":["post-384571","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384571","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=384571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}