{"id":409960,"date":"2026-09-25T03:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409960\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:46:29","slug":"crane-falls-on-house-then-fort-lauderdale-homeowners-day-gets-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409960\/","title":{"rendered":"Crane falls on house then Fort Lauderdale homeowner\u2019s day gets worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two cranes fell on top of a Fort Lauderdale house Thursday, causing significant structural damage to the home, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first crane, which was mounted on a truck, tipped over around 9:10 a.m. on the 800 block of Southeast Eighth Street, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Two truck-mounted cranes collapsed in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. The crane on the right buckled while lifting the other crane, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/miami_herald_mcclatchy_975\/940324e595e65d8a46ce48485645ee3a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two truck-mounted cranes collapsed in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. The crane on the right buckled while lifting the other crane, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then another truck-mounted crane was brought in to lift the first one, and its beam buckled from the weight, and it too fell onto the house, Guzman said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The beam of a truck-mounted crane is bent while lifting another crane that fell onto a Fort Lauderdale house on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/miami_herald_mcclatchy_975\/884dee39f56270e4b9a4c536500accab.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The beam of a truck-mounted crane is bent while lifting another crane that fell onto a Fort Lauderdale house on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The home sustained heavy damage, but no one was injured, he said. The city&#8217;s fire inspector and building department are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two cranes fell on top of a Fort Lauderdale house Thursday, causing significant structural damage to the home,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,75414,94655],"class_list":["post-409960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-frank-guzman","tag-structural-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409960","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=409960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}