{"id":400689,"date":"2026-09-15T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400689\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:36:09","slug":"refrigerator-catches-fire-at-hollywood-home-spreads-to-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400689\/","title":{"rendered":"Refrigerator catches fire at Hollywood home, spreads to attic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A refrigerator sparked a house fire in Hollywood on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened just before 10:30 a.m. in the 2800 block of Funston Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Hollywood Fire Rescue, arriving crews found a fire in the rear of the home that extended from the refrigerator \u201cinto the attic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters \u201cquickly\u201d put down the blaze, according to HFR. Nobody was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFirefighters conducted ventilation and overhaul operations to ensure the fire was fully extinguished and to check for any remaining hot spots,\u201d HFR spokesperson Chai Kauffman said in an email. \u201cA Hollywood Fire Inspector and the State Fire Marshal were requested to determine the cause and origin of the fire. The investigation remains ongoing.\u201d<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" 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\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A refrigerator sparked a house fire in Hollywood on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-400689","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\/400689","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=400689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}