{"id":394383,"date":"2026-09-09T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394383\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:40:08","slug":"st-lucie-firefighters-extinguish-blaze-in-attic-of-new-unoccupied-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394383\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie firefighters extinguish blaze in attic of new, unoccupied home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An unoccupied home caught fire in St. Lucie County yesterday following significant lightning activity in the area, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slcfd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Lucie County Fire District<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SLCFD says its crews responded to a new and unoccupied home with smoke coming from the inside, which was later determined to be coming from the attic.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire while also searching the residence. As part of the operation, SLCFD says they opened the roof of the home, allowing the intense heat and trapped smoke to escape.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/todd-wegrich-shot-killed-girlfriend-loxahatchee-booked-hotel-ben-hotel-before-murder-confessed-to-crime-palm-beach-county-sheriffs-office-west-palm-beach-police-department-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> The Ben hotel standoff suspect booked room 46 minutes before deadly shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported from this incident, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unoccupied home caught fire in St. Lucie County yesterday following significant lightning activity in the area, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-394383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394383","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=394383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}