{"id":238457,"date":"2026-04-07T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:05:13","slug":"delaware-state-fire-marshal-investigating-houston-house-fire-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238457\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware State Fire Marshal investigating Houston house fire | Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">HOUSTON, Del. &#8211; The Delaware State Fire\u00a0 Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating a Kent County house fire on Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Authorities say the fire was reported shortly before noon on April 6 at a two-story house on Front Street in Houston. The Houston Fire Company responded alongside multiple other agencies to find the fire had spread through the entire home. WBOC\u2019s Chopper 16 was above the scene as firefighters worked to contain the flames, but the house eventually collapsed onto itself, according to investigators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Fire Marshal\u2019s Office says the house was luckily not occupied at the time, and no injuries were reported. One person was displaced, according to authorities, and total damage is estimated at $250,000.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office continues to investigate the origin and cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Del. &#8211; The Delaware State Fire\u00a0 Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating a Kent County house fire on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25292,91655,91652,630,10342,91651,56,91654,58,57,49864,91653],"class_list":{"0":"post-238457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-delaware","9":"tag-delaware-state-fire-marshal","10":"tag-delaware-state-fire-marshals-office","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-fire-marshal","13":"tag-firefighting-in-the-united-states","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-fire-company","16":"tag-houston-headlines","17":"tag-houston-news","18":"tag-kent-county","19":"tag-office-of-the-oklahoma-state-fire-marshal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238457","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=238457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}