{"id":115552,"date":"2026-01-08T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115552\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:42:07","slug":"dallas-firefighter-injured-in-overnight-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115552\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas firefighter injured in overnight apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8398tz-brockbank-fire-firefighter-injured_00.00.21.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas firefighter was hospitalized after falling from a balcony while fighting a fire overnight.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The fire happened around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday at a two-story apartment complex on Brockbank Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">By the time firefighters arrived, there were already massive flames.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A firefighter attempting to bring the flames under control fell through a balcony on the second floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He was taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries. He was later released and is now recovering at home.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brockbank-fire-injured-firefighter_2026_01_08t0726_07.26.08.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The fire ended up destroying four apartments. Three were vacant, but one tenant lost everything.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Let\u2019s see if they help us because all my documents are lost and everything,&#8221; Orlen Martinez said in Spanish. &#8220;I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re okay or not. They told us we could go in and check soon when everyone is gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brockbank-apt-fire-tvs-_-kdfwu20_6449_mxf_kdfw50a0_02.12.19.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Martinez suffered several cuts on his feet because of broken glass.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The apartment complex is planning to give him and his brother another place to stay as they figure out what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Dallas Fire Department and an interview with residents at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas firefighter was hospitalized after falling from a balcony while fighting a fire overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-115552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-county","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115552","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=115552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}