{"id":247839,"date":"2026-04-13T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:45:21","slug":"fire-investigators-seek-suspect-in-arson-near-west-lubbock-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247839\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire investigators seek suspect in arson near west Lubbock apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 8, 2026, 10:35 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lubbock fire investigators are asking the public&#8217;s help identifying a person caught by security cameras Wednesday afternoon setting a fire that threatened a west Lubbock apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lubbock fire crews responding to a 4 p.m. call about a fire near an apartment complex in the 2300 block of West Loop 289, encountered heavy smoke coming from the rear of the property and found a fire spreading on a patch of grass and a fence line, according to a Lubbock Fire Rescue news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Fire crews quickly extingshed the blaze before it could damage any structures, the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Fire Marshals found security camera footage from the area that showed a person intentionally igniting the grass before fleeing the scene, the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Anyone with information about the fire can contact the Fire Marshal\u2019s Office at 806-775-2646 or fireprevention@mylubbock.us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 8, 2026, 10:35 p.m. CT Lubbock fire investigators are asking the public&#8217;s help identifying a person caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[203,168,170,169,3007,3008,2081,6686,660,3530,217,534,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-247839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-accessmetered","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-sstsnewscrime","13":"tag-sstsncrime","14":"tag-tagaccidents-disasters","15":"tag-tagemergency-services","16":"tag-taglocal-news","17":"tag-taglubbock","18":"tag-tagoverall-negative","19":"tag-tagviolence-abuse","20":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247839","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=247839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}