{"id":235100,"date":"2026-04-04T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:23:09","slug":"north-texas-house-fire-kills-1-person-sends-another-to-hospital-firefighters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235100\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas house fire kills 1 person, sends another to hospital, firefighters say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A house fire that broke out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Watauga<\/a> overnight left one person dead and another in the hospital, the Watauga Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to a home along Mackneal Trail near Jackie Terrace shortly after 11 p.m. Friday night. The department said they were told at the scene that someone was possibly inside.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, the department said crews got inside the house and battled the blaze, while also searching. They found one person in a bedroom. That victim, who has not been identified as of publication, was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A second victim, who was found by medics, was taken to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth for treatment, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is now under investigation by both Watauga&#8217;s Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office and the Tarrant County Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office. In addition to the Watauga Fire Department, crews from North Richland Hills and Haltom City responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A house fire that broke out in Watauga overnight left one person dead and another in the hospital,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,27,29,28,20907],"class_list":["post-235100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fire","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-watauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235100","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=235100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}