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A massive fire erupted early this morning at the South Miami home of Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
An assistant coach at the scene of the fire confirmed to Local 10 News that the blaze was at Spoelstra’s home, which sits just west of Coral Gables at Davis Road and Ponce de Leon Boulevard. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR), the fire was reported at the single-family residence just after 4:30 a.m., and officials arrived to find “two structures on the property” engulfed in flames.
There are no reported injuries, the spokesperson said.
“The call was upgraded to a second alarm for additional manpower,” an MDFR spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement to New Times. “Due to a partial collapse, units switched to a defensive attack and were able to extinguish the fire.”
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“The fire is out now, and fire crews remain on scene monitoring for hot spots. There are no reported injuries and the home was unoccupied at the time of the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation,” MDFR wrote in an emailed statement.
Video footage shared by the Miami Herald shows flames engulfing part of the property early this morning before fire rescue crews arrived at the scene. Photos taken at the scene also appear to show a distraught Spoelstra standing outside the blazing home.
Property records show the 5,700-square-foot, five-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom house on a 43,000-square-foot lot was built in 1985 and sold for $6.6 million in 2023 to an entity called Land Trust Agreement 4875.
A neighbor told Local 10 News that Spoelstra’s home had been under renovation for at least a year and believed the renovations had been completed, given that Spoelstra recently hosted a large party in his backyard.
According to Local 10, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Victoria Byrd told reporters at the scene that more than 20 units responded to the blaze. Firefighters arrived to find flames “as tall as the trees,” she said, and worked to extinguish the fire using both engines and aerial trucks. Byrd added that access to the property was complicated by a privacy wall and dense tree cover, with only one entry point available.
An MDFR spokesperson says the cause of the fire is under investigation.
This is a breaking story and will be updated as events warrant.
