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Leon Segura was driving past the house on McCart Avenue around 3 a.m. when he heard screaming through his open truck windows. He jumped out and tried to kick down the front door but couldn\u2019t get in because of the flames and heat.A child in the front yard told Segura her siblings were still inside. He ran to the back, smashed the glass door<\/a> and entered with a bandana wrapped around his face, carrying two unconscious girls out one by one, he told KTVT-TV.Segura suffered smoke inhalation, burns on his back and cuts on his hands and arms. He was treated at a hospital, released and returned to the scene. The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The full story in the link at top was reported, written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bystander driving past a burning Fort Worth home early Thursday broke through a back door and pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-350947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350947","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=350947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} A firefighter treats Leon Segura, who had cuts and burns after he punched through a glass door and went into a burning home to rescue two children in Fort Worth on Thursday, June 25, 2026. Glen Ellman Fort Worth Fire Department \u201cI have an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old daughter. I mean, what if it was one of my kids?\u201d Segura told KXAS-TV.<\/a> \u201cI would want to have somebody act immediately. It\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201dSegura\u2019s girlfriend, Rosalinda Garcia, was with him and said, \u201cI would definitely consider him a hero<\/a>,\u201d Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV reported.Fort Worth Fire Department officials credited Segura with giving the girls \u201ca chance at survival\u201d and called his actions extraordinary. Firefighters arrived within a few minutes and pulled two more children from the home. Arson investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire.
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Fire investigators search a house after a fatal fire in south Fort Worth on June 25, 2026. Elvis Martinez-Cartagena FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM The American Red Cross is assisting the family. \u201cOur hearts hurt for these children and we are holding them in our prayers as they fight for their lives,\u201d the Fire Department said. \u201c… As you process the heaviness and magnitude of this devastating incident, please take the time to make sure you have working smoke alarms in your home.\u201d<\/p>\n