{"id":421437,"date":"2026-10-07T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421437\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:52:42","slug":"husband-helps-family-neighbors-escape-jacksonville-beach-apartment-fire-that-displaced-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421437\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband helps family, neighbors escape Jacksonville Beach apartment fire that displaced 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/05\/jacksonville-beach-fire-displaces-6-residents-from-mixed-use-building-on-3rd-street-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/05\/jacksonville-beach-fire-displaces-6-residents-from-mixed-use-building-on-3rd-street-south\/\">A woman and her family escaped an apartment fire near Jacksonville Beach<\/a> after her husband rushed inside to help other residents, newly released video shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Stacy Rogers said at least 12 people were inside the building when smoke and flames spread Sunday. She believes lives could have been lost if she and her husband had not acted quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cMy husband, God love him, God bless him forever \u2014 yes, he is the hero in all of this,\u201d Rogers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Video shows Rogers\u2019 husband running into the building as people shouted for residents to get out. He helped neighbors while Rogers gathered their daughter and granddaughters, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cHe immediately was on high alert,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cWhen I tell you, he moved like nobody\u2019s business to get the neighbors out. And he knew I would react. He knew I knew what to do, also, so he trusted me with our daughter and our granddaughters, and he went and got everyone else out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Rogers\u2019 7-year-old granddaughter, Beyah, said she was not scared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cBecause I\u2019m a brave girl,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The fire displaced at least six people and left the building heavily damaged. Rogers said she expects it to be condemned and that her family will have to leave behind their home and memories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cOur memories will be that we lived there when it burned down,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be repairable. It\u2019s going to be condemned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Several tenants have documented electrical problems in the building, and some said they plan to pursue legal action. The cause of the fire had not been released. The landlord could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-our-coworker-after-house-fire-3tpkb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-our-coworker-after-house-fire-3tpkb\">Rogers\u2019 family has created a GoFundMe to help them move forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. \u2013 A woman and her family escaped an apartment fire near Jacksonville Beach after her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[855,116,2130,118,117],"class_list":["post-421437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-fire","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-beach","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421437","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=421437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}