{"id":115774,"date":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","slug":"fire-destroys-vacant-home-near-cockrell-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115774\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys vacant home near Cockrell Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/v-cockrell-hill-house-fire-6a_00.00.24.00.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">COCKRELL HILL, Texas &#8211; A large fire destroyed a vacant home just south of Cockrell Hill 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 started just before 4 a.m. on Thursday at a house on South Cockrell Hill Road, north of Ledbetter Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">By the time firefighters arrived, the two-story home was already engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Firefighters were forced to fight the blaze from the outside using ladder trucks due to the heavy volume of fire.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/v-cockrell-hill-house-fire-6a_00.00.00.58.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The vacant home is now gutted.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No one was hurt.<\/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=\"\">Investigators are still working to determine what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 4 photojournalist Terry Van Sickle gathered the information in this story at the scene of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/cockrell-hill\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cockrell Hill<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article COCKRELL HILL, Texas &#8211; A large fire destroyed a vacant home just south of Cockrell Hill overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50937,102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-115774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-cockrell-hill","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115774","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=115774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}