One person has died in Parker County following severe weather near Springtown, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n
Assistant Chief David Pruitt confirmed the fatality, saying it occurred in an area south of Springtown. No additional details about the victim or the circumstances were immediately released.<\/p>\n
Earlier Sunday, the City of Springtown reported widespread damage from severe weather, including a significant number of downed trees and power lines across the city and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
In a weather alert issued Saturday at 10:35 p.m., officials said crews were actively assessing damage but could not confirm whether it was caused by straight-line winds or a tornado.<\/p>\n
Travel remains discouraged as crews work to clear roadways and respond to damage.<\/p>\n
Residents are asked to report downed trees or power lines to the Springtown Police Department\u2019s nonemergency number and to reserve 911 for life-and-death emergencies.<\/p>\n
Officials said damage assessments are ongoing, with some structures also reported to have been affected.<\/p>\n
No further information about the fatality has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died in Parker County following severe weather near Springtown, officials confirmed. Assistant Chief David Pruitt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7812,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-267165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-parker-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267165","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=267165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}