{"id":319747,"date":"2026-06-02T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319747\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:20:07","slug":"firefighter-injured-battling-blaze-at-vacant-lubbock-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319747\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter injured battling blaze at vacant Lubbock home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Fire Rescue crews extinguished a structure fire at a vacant two-story home near the 1700 block of 18th Street after a caller reported smoke and flames, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters arrived to find the building fully engulfed and began fire suppression and a search operation, LFR said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Preliminary findings indicate the fire started on a mattress in a downstairs apartment and spread up an exterior wall into the doorway of an upstairs apartment, according to Lubbock Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One firefighter suffered a leg injury after stepping through a hole in the floor of the second-floor apartment during operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Lubbock Fire Rescue Fire Marshal\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Fire Rescue crews extinguished a structure fire at a vacant two-story home near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52642,43330,68035,319,11770,66,168,9759,170,114659,49655,169,223],"class_list":["post-319747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-blaze","tag-firefighter","tag-injured","tag-kcbd","tag-lfr","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-fire-rescue","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-home-fire","tag-lubbock-house-fire","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319747","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=319747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}