{"id":271574,"date":"2026-04-29T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:33:28","slug":"building-demolished-following-fire-in-downtown-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271574\/","title":{"rendered":"Building demolished following fire in downtown Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Around 6:20 a.m., Lubbock Fire Rescue was called to the scene of a structure fire in downtown Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to LFR, the caller said the building was fully engulfed. The first crew on scene saw heavy fire coming from the roof of the building.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lubbock Fire Rescue is on scene of a commercial structure fire. Crews are currently operating under defensive operations. No injuries reported at this time <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c2PBrUgWbQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/c2PBrUgWbQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lubbock Fire Rescue (@LubbockFireTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LubbockFireTX\/status\/2049454998900121640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 29, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Because of the intensity of the fire and fires that occurred previously at the same location, the Incident Commander decided to not let crews enter the building since it could\u2019ve collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews fought the fire from the outside, containing and extinguishing the fire with no injuries. The LFR Fire Marshal\u2019s Office asked for assistance from the City of Lubbock\u2019s Code Enforcement Department to determine if it should be demolished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The property owner then arrived and agreed to to go ahead with the emergency demolition of the structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LFR said it had previously responded to the same building two other times for separate fires in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Around 6:20 a.m., Lubbock Fire Rescue was called to the scene of a structure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[75349,630,319,11770,251,168,9759,170,169,7944],"class_list":["post-271574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-downtown-lubbock","tag-fire","tag-kcbd","tag-lfr","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-fire-rescue","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-structure-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271574","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=271574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}