{"id":110628,"date":"2026-01-04T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110628\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:33:11","slug":"two-houston-firefighters-driver-injured-in-gulf-freeway-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110628\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Houston firefighters, driver injured in Gulf Freeway crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Two firefighters and a driver were hospitalized early Saturday after a crash involving a fire stuck on the Gulf Freeway, Houston Police say.<\/p>\n<p>   Gulf Freeway crash: Firefighters injured <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gulf-freeway.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The crash was reported at about midnight Saturday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/I-45+and+Clear+Lake+City+Boulevard\/@29.5717662,-95.1882912,14z\/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA2N0gBUAM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I-45 North near the Friendswood area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police at the scene said a Houston Fire truck was blocking traffic as officers were investigating a separate crash. Another vehicle then slammed into the fire truck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Two firefighters and the driver were hospitalized. Around the time of the incident, authorities said the firefighters were in stable condition and the driver was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No one involved has been identified at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">It&#8217;s not clear if the driver will be charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OnScene and Houston Police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/friendswood\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friendswood<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Two firefighters and a driver were hospitalized early Saturday after a crash involving a fire stuck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20802,56,58,57,223,272,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-110628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-friendswood","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}