{"id":784630,"date":"2026-07-26T00:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784630\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:40:17","slug":"death-investigation-underway-after-lee-county-deputies-respond-to-structure-fire-on-ranchette-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784630\/","title":{"rendered":"Death investigation underway after Lee County deputies respond to structure fire on Ranchette Rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death investigation underway after Lee County deputies respond to structure fire on Ranchette Rd<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A death investigation is underway after deputies with the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded to the scene of a structure fire in the 11000 block of Ranchette Road Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Deputies say that one person was found dead.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheriffLeeFL\/status\/2081069378271842665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X<\/a>, LCSO says that detectives with the Major Crimes Unit are investigating.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">According to South Trail Fire Protection &amp; Rescue Service District, one of their fire investigators is working with LCSO and the State Fire Marshall&#8217;s Office to investigate the cause and origin of the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death investigation underway after Lee County deputies respond to structure fire on Ranchette Rd LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,143471,452,453,295995,291375,295997],"class_list":["post-784630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-streams","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us-privacy-notice-term","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wbbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}