{"id":400559,"date":"2026-09-15T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:46:10","slug":"detectives-investigate-fort-lauderdale-house-fire-after-2-injured-arson-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400559\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives investigate Fort Lauderdale house fire after 2 injured, arson suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 15, 2026 at 10:55 AM<\/p>\n<p>Man suffers life-threatening injuries; firefighter suffers minor injuries<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A man remained hospitalized on Tuesday, as detectives investigated suspicions that the fire that trapped him in his home in Fort Lauderdale was set on purpose, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel responded to the one-story house shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Monday after a neighbor saw the flames in the Lauderdale Manors neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BSZIEHO3BFGOBHZM4SBSDNW6CM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"476\"\/>HOUSE FIRE: Firefighters shared images of a house after a fire on Monday in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters reported finding the man trapped inside the bathroom in the five-bedroom house, built in 1958, near Northwest 18th Avenue and 16th Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire rescue personnel reported taking the man, who suffered life-threatening injuries, to the Broward Health Medical Center. A firefighter suffered minor burns while working at the house. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases who wants to remain anonymous to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/14\/man-rescued-from-fort-lauderdale-house-fire-rushed-to-hospital-with-life-threatening-injuries\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/14\/man-rescued-from-fort-lauderdale-house-fire-rushed-to-hospital-with-life-threatening-injuries\/\">Man rescued from Fort Lauderdale house fire, rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location <\/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=\"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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM Updated:\u00a0September 15, 2026 at 10:55 AM Man suffers life-threatening injuries; firefighter suffers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-400559","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\/400559","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=400559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}