The house fire on Fifth Avenue in Lehigh Acres is out, the address is 104 Fifth Avenue, and the fire district says the report that a homeowner was trapped inside turned out to be wrong once crews had searched the house

The house fire that crews were working on Fifth Avenue in Lehigh Acres on Wednesday evening is out, and nobody was inside it.

WINK News reports that the fire broke out at 104 Fifth Avenue at 6.33 p.m., according to the Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District. Initial reports suggested the homeowner was trapped inside. Firefighters extinguished the fire and confirmed no one was inside the home.

That resolves the most alarming detail of the early reporting. This site carried the fire earlier in the evening as an active incident, with fire officials saying the home was clear of potential victims and with no address released beyond the street name.

Fire Marshal Matthew Brennan said the extent of the damage is not yet known, and that the cause of the fire is under investigation. No cause has been stated by anyone, and nothing in the district's account suggests this fire is being treated as anything other than routine to investigate.

What has still not been released is the injury position for the firefighters who worked it, the number of units on scene, how long the fire burned, and whether anyone has been displaced from the house.

No public document sits behind this account. The district does not publish incident reports of its own, and its public news page carries community announcements and notices, the most recent posted in November 2025, so its statements about this fire have reached the public through the newsrooms quoting it. WINK is a separate newsroom from the one that carried the fire here earlier in the evening.

This is the second house fire in Lehigh Acres this site has carried in eight days. The August 5 fire on Maple Avenue North was traced to lightning and was out with nobody hurt. Nothing links the two beyond the town.