{"id":338956,"date":"2026-06-16T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338956\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:05:12","slug":"person-rescued-from-south-austin-house-fire-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338956\/","title":{"rendered":"Person rescued from South Austin house fire, taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 A person was rescued from a burning home in South Austin Tuesday morning and taken to a hospital, the Austin Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to a house fire at 306 W. Johanna St. at 7:08 a.m., the department said. Firefighters located a person inside the home and pulled them out, immediately providing life-saving care before the person was transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/lightning-strike-sparks-house-fire-in-fayette-county-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Lightning strike sparks house fire in Fayette County, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video posted by the department shows crews performing vertical ventilation, a tactic firefighters use to cut openings in a structure to release smoke and heat and improve conditions inside during firefighting operations.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation, AFD said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A person was rescued from a burning home in South Austin Tuesday morning and taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-338956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338956","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=338956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}