{"id":254610,"date":"2026-04-17T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:24:07","slug":"meth-laden-van-crash-leaves-two-dead-firefighter-hospitalized-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254610\/","title":{"rendered":"Meth-laden van crash leaves two dead, Firefighter hospitalized in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say a hazardous materials incident that left two men dead and a firefighter hospitalized on Thursday involved a large amount of suspected liquid methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Delga Street near the North Freeway frontage road, where a black van crashed into a parked car. One man was found dead inside the vehicle, and the driver later died after being pulled from the van.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth police said testing of the contents inside buckets found in the van returned a presumptive positive result for liquid methamphetamine. Investigators estimate the substance weighed about 480 pounds, with a potential street value between $1 million and $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet determined how the men died. A firefighter was hospitalized after being exposed to an unknown substance during the response. He has since been released and is reported to be in good condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say a hazardous materials incident that left two men dead and a firefighter hospitalized on Thursday involved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95528,294,116,118,117,2531,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-254610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-all-local","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-illegal-drugs","14":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254610","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=254610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}