{"id":165847,"date":"2026-02-15T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:37:08","slug":"man-who-died-after-dallas-firefighters-retrieved-him-from-burning-home-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165847\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died after Dallas firefighters retrieved him from burning home identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">An 80-year-old has been identified as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2026\/02\/11\/man-woman-hospitalized-after-rescue-from-burning-home-in-northwest-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">man who died<\/a> in a hospital after he and a woman were rescued from a house fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/northwest-dallas\/https:\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/northwest-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northwest Dallas<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Louis H. Johnson, 80, died at Parkland Memorial Hospital almost an hour after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Fire-Rescue<\/a> got him out of a house fire in the 3100 block of Modella Avenue, according to the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s office and fire officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">When firefighters arrived at the home, they saw heavy fire at the front and were told two people might be trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Johnson and a woman were removed from the home and taken to a local hospital, where Johnson later died. The woman was in stable condition, Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The cause of the fire is being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 80-year-old has been identified as the man who died in a hospital after he and a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13669,102,104,103,630,17726,1225],"class_list":{"0":"post-165847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-accidental-death","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-northwest-dallas","14":"tag-public-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165847","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=165847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}