{"id":191024,"date":"2026-03-05T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:51:09","slug":"seven-escape-safely-after-building-collapse-in-garland-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191024\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven escape safely after building collapse in Garland, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire officials say the collapse was possibly triggered by heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>GARLAND, Texas \u2014 Seven people escaped safely after part of a building collapsed in Garland late Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Garland Fire Department crews were called to the reported collapse just before 5 p.m in the 2900 block of Kingsley Rd. All seven were able to evacuate the TPI building on their own, and no injuries were reported, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports indicate that recent heavy rainfall in the area appears to be the likely cause of the collapse. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/weather\/dfw-weather-be-prepared-numerous-thunderstorm-chances-begin-this-week-heres-the-latest\/287-14ec0acc-a5a5-4638-a6aa-76467f94c44a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Severe Thunderstorm Watch\u00a0<\/a>was issued Wednesday for Dallas County until 11 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f144ba42-c57d-4efa-9f3d-ff83413bf380_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f144ba42-c57d-4efa-9f3d-ff83413bf380_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c7892681-b343-4802-8f23-62d35a652336_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c7892681-b343-4802-8f23-62d35a652336_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire officials say the collapse was possibly triggered by heavy rains. GARLAND, Texas \u2014 Seven people escaped safely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-191024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191024","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=191024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}