{"id":254503,"date":"2026-04-17T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:54:12","slug":"two-dead-firefighter-hospitalized-after-chemical-found-inside-van-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254503\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Dead, Firefighter Hospitalized After Chemical Found Inside Van In Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth police are investigating a deadly crash in which a large amount of an unknown chemical was discovered inside a vehicle, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/fort-worth-delga-street-hazmat-call-firefighter-injured\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:began;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;began&quot;}\" class=\"link \">began<\/a> shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday when a black van struck a parked car in the 1900 block of Delga Street near the North Freeway frontage road. The van continued a short distance before stopping, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One man was pronounced dead inside the van. Firefighters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth-police-deadly-crash-suspected-mobile-meth-lab\/4011299\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:treated;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;treated&quot;}\" class=\"link \">treated<\/a> the driver, but he died on the scene while waiting to be transported to a hospital, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the investigation, Fort Worth firefighters found the unknown chemical in the vehicle. One firefighter was exposed and taken to a hospital for treatment, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The scene was secured, and no shelter-in-place order was issued. Officials said there is no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police spokesperson Buddy Calzada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/fort-worth-delga-street-hazmat-call-firefighter-injured\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> investigators are still trying to determine how the victims died. A large amount of an unknown chemical was found inside the van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash and the chemical, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police are investigating a deadly crash in which a large amount of an unknown chemical was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[521,116,118,117,3737,38830,59510],"class_list":{"0":"post-254503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-deadly-crash","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-police","13":"tag-police-spokesperson","14":"tag-yellow-police-tape-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254503","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=254503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}