{"id":391571,"date":"2026-09-05T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391571\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:50:25","slug":"fire-engulfs-homeless-camp-on-fourth-way-in-north-fort-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391571\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs homeless camp on Fourth Way in North Fort Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire engulfs homeless camp on Fourth Way in North Fort Myers<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788634224_14_60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/news-team\/2a6b881f-dbc0-47db-b827-f17851f1cfae\" aria-label=\"Kendall Brandt profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2a6b881f-dbc0-47db-b827-f17851f1cfae_1747452386.JPG\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Kendall Brandt\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A fire burned through a homeless camp on Fourth Way in North Fort Myers on Wednesday afternoon, according to the North Fort Myers Fire District.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Video from the scene shows smoke billowing from the lot. The fire was visible for miles across the area. North Fort Myers Fire officials said the flames were burning at approximately 1:30 p.m., and no people or pets were hurt.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was on scene to assist.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The fire has since been put out, and the cause is under investigation. It has been ruled as accidental.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment, and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs homeless camp on Fourth Way in North Fort Myers NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 A fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1185,209,211,210,2344,104,855,156538,156537,667,213,7692,9303,725,2737,197,1045,221],"class_list":["post-391571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alert","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-fire","tag-fire-engulfs-homeless-camp","tag-fourth-way","tag-investigation","tag-late-news","tag-lee-county-sheriff","tag-north-fort-myers","tag-scene","tag-smoke","tag-sport","tag-video","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391571","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=391571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}