{"id":77263,"date":"2025-12-09T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:01:06","slug":"2-hospitalized-after-fire-breaks-out-at-largo-townhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77263\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hospitalized after fire breaks out at Largo townhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The flames went from the bottom right to the roof in a matter of seconds,&#8221; the woman who called 911 told 10 Tampa Bay News.<\/p>\n<p>LARGO, Fla. \u2014 Two people are hospitalized after a fire broke out Tuesday morning at a townhouse in Largo.<\/p>\n<p>Largo Fire Rescue responded around 11:30 a.m. to a structure fire on<a href=\"http:\/\/around%2011:30%20a.m.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0South Pines Drive.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the agency said two people were transported to the hospital, and no one else was hurt. She also confirmed that the fire is out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear what caused the fire or the extent of the people&#8217;s injuries.<\/p>\n<p>10 Tampa Bay News spoke to the woman who called 911 to report the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWoman says neighbor kicked in door, saved woman from fire                    <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I live across the street. I was on the phone talking to a friend. I heard &#8216;pop, pop, pop&#8217; and then I saw flames, and I ran to open my back gate. The flames went from the bottom right to the roof in a matter of seconds,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman explained that she called 911 and then ran out into the street to flag down a neighbor to alert her about the fire. The neighbor, she said, actually entered the home and saved the woman who was inside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She ran out and kicked in the door and saved that lady,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. It will be updated as more details are made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The flames went from the bottom right to the roof in a matter of seconds,&#8221; the woman who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-77263","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\/77263","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=77263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}