{"id":300019,"date":"2026-07-19T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300019\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:08:46","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-lightning-strike-sparks-house-fire-in-east-flatbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300019\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Lightning Strike Sparks House Fire In East Flatbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lightning is believed to have sparked a house fire in East Flatbush, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say they were called to the scene just before 8 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The home, located on East 55th Street, caught fire after it was struck by lightning, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The flames were found in the cockloft of the home and was quickly put out.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning is believed to have sparked a house fire in East Flatbush, according to fire officials. Authorities say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-300019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}