{"id":147187,"date":"2026-02-02T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/147187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:53:11","slug":"woman-killed-in-sunday-evening-dallas-apartment-fire-officials-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/147187\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in Sunday evening Dallas apartment fire, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Fire-Rescue is investigating the cause of a fire after a woman was found dead on a burning mattress in an apartment on Sunday evening, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to DFR, firefighters were called at about 6:41 p.m. to an apartment complex at 2359 Highland Road, where a fire alarm could be heard from a first floor apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crew had to force their way into the apartment after knocking and getting no answer, officials say, and upon entering, reportedly found the victim on the remnants of a burning mattress.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters immediately pulled the woman out of the apartment, officials said, but by that point she had succumbed to her injuries. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was declared out at 7:26 p.m. after firefighters extinguished what was left of the burning mattress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DFR says it&#8217;s investigating the cause of the fire. Neither the identity of the victim nor her cause of death have been released yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Fire-Rescue is investigating the cause of a fire after a woman was found dead on a burning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7222,61414,102,9379,104,103,44285,120],"class_list":["post-147187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-apartment-complex","tag-burning-mattress","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fire-alarm","tag-firefighters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147187","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=147187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}