{"id":419821,"date":"2026-10-06T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:00:07","slug":"island-crews-respond-to-fire-at-two-story-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419821\/","title":{"rendered":"Island crews respond to fire at two-story home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPIFCD<br \/>\nThe Matlacha\/Pine Island Fire Control District responded to a residential structure fire on Sept. 30 off of Royal Palm Drive in St. James City.<\/p>\n<p>At around 9:13 a.m. Sept. 30, the Matlacha\/Pine Island Fire Control District responded to a reported residential structure fire with explosions heard off of Royal Palm Drive in St. James City.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, the crews found light smoke showing from the two-story structure.<\/p>\n<p>District officials reported that the firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, preventing it from spreading and causing further damage.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident, once again, demonstrates the importance of a quick fire response and the professionally trained personnel who work every day to protect our community,\u201d Fire Chief Benjamin Mickuleit said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>To reach STAFF REPORT \/ news@breezenewspapers.com, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pineisland-eagle.com\/news\/2026\/10\/island-crews-respond-to-fire-at-two-story-home\/mailto:\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MPIFCD The Matlacha\/Pine Island Fire Control District responded to a residential structure fire on Sept. 30 off of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-419821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419821","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=419821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}