{"id":399705,"date":"2026-09-14T19:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399705\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:12:15","slug":"man-rescued-from-fort-lauderdale-house-fire-rushed-to-hospital-with-life-threatening-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399705\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from Fort Lauderdale house fire, rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 3:05 PM<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter sustains minor burns during fire displacing 8 people 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\/09\/U2W647P5M5FAZKU3FMQ3OJ5VDU.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A man was rescued from a burning home in Fort Lauderdale Monday afternoon and rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/14\/rescatan-a-hombre-de-incendio-en-vivienda-de-fort-lauderdale-y-lo-trasladan-al-hospital-con-heridas-que-ponen-en-riesgo-su-vida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/14\/rescatan-a-hombre-de-incendio-en-vivienda-de-fort-lauderdale-y-lo-trasladan-al-hospital-con-heridas-que-ponen-en-riesgo-su-vida\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials, a 911 call came in just after 12:30 p.m. reporting a house fire in the 1800 block of Northwest 16th Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe grabbed the water hose,\u201d the man said. \u201cThere was like nothing we could do about it. We just thought about all the memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters arrived within six minutes and encountered \u201cheavy fire conditions,\u201d FLFR officials said in a news release. Eight people were displaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said crews were told someone might be trapped inside the home and immediately entered the house to search for that person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters then located a man inside a bathroom and rescued him from the home, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man was transported to Broward Health Medical Center with what officials said were \u201clife-threatening injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FLFR officials confirmed that one firefighter suffered minor burns and is receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/6MNVTXJEDBE6TCNZGSMH4XJE.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Michaila Hightower\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/5883cd03-bb16-4471-b1.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Michaila Hightower<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Michaila Hightower joined the Local 10 News team in January 2025 as a reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM Updated:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 3:05 PM Firefighter sustains minor burns during fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-399705","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\/399705","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=399705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}