{"id":45262,"date":"2025-11-13T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45262\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:50:10","slug":"im-grateful-to-god-st-pete-grandmother-believes-e-scooter-caused-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45262\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m grateful to God&#8217;: St. Pete grandmother believes e-scooter caused house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Pete Fire Rescue has not yet confirmed what caused the fire, but firefighters were seen hosing down a charred e-scooter in the home&#8217;s front lawn.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Pete woman is figuring out where she and her grandchildren are going to sleep tonight after she said an e-scooter sparked a fire at their home.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete Fire Rescue crews responded early Thursday morning to a single-story home located on 16th Avenue South, where they found heavy smoke coming from the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to get the fire under control after using hose lines. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>10 Tampa Bay News spoke with the homeowner, Monica Snead, who believes the fire was started by the e-scooter. St. Pete Fire Rescue has not yet confirmed what caused the fire, but firefighters were seen hosing down a charred e-scooter in the home&#8217;s front lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Snead said she heard a pop sound from a room in the back of the house where the e-scooter was and saw smoke once she approached the area.<\/p>\n<p>After calling a friend to come over for help, Snead heard another pop noise that sounded like an explosion, which is when she started seeing flames.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the time 911 got here, it was really bad,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As bad as it is, I&#8217;m grateful to God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Snead explained that her grandchildren were home with her, but were not in the room at the time. She recalled an incident during a previous hurricane where the roof fell on top of one of her grandsons&#8217; rooms, but he was thankfully sleeping on a sofa in a different room at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That roof would&#8217;ve ended up falling in and it would have fell on him,&#8221; Snead said.<\/p>\n<p>Snead says she now doesn&#8217;t know where she and her grandchildren are staying Thursday evening, as fire officials continue investigating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just going to stand firm and face this giant that I have here,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f86b2c62-3cc1-45d8-b32a-426daa598bc9_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f86b2c62-3cc1-45d8-b32a-426daa598bc9_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Pete Fire Rescue has not yet confirmed what caused the fire, but firefighters were seen hosing down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-45262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45262","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=45262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}