{"id":233907,"date":"2026-04-03T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:40:07","slug":"vent-fan-in-bathroom-causes-house-fire-on-san-antonios-south-side-safd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233907\/","title":{"rendered":"Vent fan in bathroom causes house fire on San Antonio&#8217;s south side, SAFD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said no one was home at the time of the fire. <\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A vent fan caused a south-side home to catch fire Friday afternoon, San Antonio firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were called to the 200 block of East Hafer around 1:15 p.m., for a reported structure fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said a house that was under renovation caught fire due to a vent fan in the bathroom. The fire was contained to the attic and caused notable damage to the wood. The fire was under control in about 10 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one was at the residence at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported, according to SAFD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said a vent fan or an exhaust fan is pretty common for igniting fires inside homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recommend shutting off vent fans when no one is home and its not necessary to run,&#8221; a battalion chief on scene said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials said no one was home at the time of the fire. SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A vent fan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-233907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233907","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=233907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}