Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra returned from the team’s Wednesday night game in Denver to discover his Florida home engulfed in flames — a fire that officials say took nearly eight hours to bring under control.

According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, crews responded to the blaze at Spoelstra’s residence in the exclusive Coral Gables neighborhood around 4:36 a.m. Thursday.

“We found fire that was as tall as the trees,” said Battalion Chief Victoria Byrd of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Authorities confirmed that no one was inside the home when the fire broke out and that no injuries or fatalities were reported.

The Heat had just concluded a four-game road trip with a loss in Denver on Wednesday night. Flight-tracking data from FlightAware shows the team’s charter landed at Miami International Airport roughly 35 minutes after firefighters first responded to the scene.

Video captured Thursday morning showed Spoelstra — who was recently named head coach of the U.S. men’s national team through the 2028 Olympics — watching as firefighters worked to extinguish the flames that consumed his five-bedroom home.

“On arrival, units found a fully engulfed house on fire, including a partial roof collapse,” Byrd said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Spoelstra, 55, served as an assistant coach for the 2024 U.S. Olympic basketball team, which won gold in Paris. A longtime member of the Heat organization, he was an assistant on the 2006 NBA championship team before leading Miami to back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013 as head coach.

The Heat are scheduled to return to action Friday night, hosting the Charlotte Hornets at Kaseya Center.