A large house in one of Weston’s most luxurious neighborhoods went up in a fiery blaze Monday night.
Video shared by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office shows large flames covering the entire roof of the home along Royal Palm Way in the gated Weston Hills community.
Firefighters had to use a crane to fight the flames from above.
No one was inside the home, which was being renovated, according to Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue.
The 8,000-square-foot home is listed on Zillow and Realtor.com as having a den, theater and three-car garage with a value of at least $2 million. The “custom-made” home is also listed online as the largest lot in the Weston Hills community at 48,000 square feet.
#BSFR is currently operating on the scene of a large residential structure fire located at 2550 ROYAL PALM WAY @CityofWeston 2nd alarm assignment requested. pic.twitter.com/01zVQz0cUB
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
