6 Tampa Bay homes caught fire after Idalia. Why flooding may be to blame.
Exposed electrical systems were the likely culprit of the fires in flooded homes.
Source: tampabay.com
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Exposed electrical systems were the likely culprit of the fires in flooded homes.
Firefighters couldn’t get there in time, blocked by the high waters.
It was a tragic paradox seen time and again across the Tampa Bay region after Hurricane Idalia passed through: houses on fire amid knee-deep floodwater. Two houses burned down in the Shore Acres neighborhood of St. Petersburg in the storm’s aftermath, and four homes were damaged or destroyed in Pasco on Wednesday. The causes of the two Shore Acres fires have not yet been determined, said St. ...