{"id":316124,"date":"2026-05-31T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316124\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:00:11","slug":"atmos-energy-faces-first-lawsuit-after-dallas-apartment-explosion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316124\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmos Energy faces first lawsuit after Dallas apartment explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A resident injured in the deadly Dallas apartment explosion has filed the first lawsuit against Atmos Energy, accusing the utility of failing to warn tenants about a gas leak and failing to monitor dangerous conditions. The man says he woke after a night shift to a loud blast, fire, and smoke, escaping with his roommate but suffering burns and smoke inhalation. Investigators continue to examine what caused the explosion that killed three and injured five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A resident injured in the deadly Dallas apartment explosion has filed the first lawsuit against Atmos Energy, accusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21523,102,104,103,5522,80116],"class_list":["post-316124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-atmos-energy","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dangerous-conditions","tag-smoke-inhalation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316124","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=316124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}