{"id":353803,"date":"2026-06-28T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:33:07","slug":"austin-firefighters-honored-for-response-to-w-6th-st-mass-shooting-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353803\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin firefighters honored for response to W 6th St. mass shooting in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 Austin firefighters were recently honored by Mayor Kirk Watson and the City of Austin for their courageous actions during the mass shooting on West 6th Street at Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden in the early morning hours of March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed and over a dozen others were injured when the gunman, later identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, opened fire. Diagne was later shot and killed by Austin Police Department officers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When unimaginable violence unfolded, Austin Firefighters responded without hesitation,&#8221; the Austin Firefighters Association said in a Facebook post. &#8220;Working alongside our brothers and sisters at Austin-Travis County EMS and the Austin Police Department, our members entered a chaotic and dangerous scene to provide lifesaving medical care, rescue the wounded, and help bring order to an event that forever changed our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/fbi-austins-sixth-street-mass-shooter-acted-alone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FBI: Austin&#8217;s Sixth Street mass shooter acted alone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First responders were on scene treating patients and triaging the injured within seconds of the first 911 calls. They were honored for their professionalism, courage, and training during the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Officials have credited the rapid response of Austin\u2019s public safety personnel with preventing even greater loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Firefighters Association stated that Mayor Watson described the public safety professionals as \u201cour guardians\u201d and \u201cour protectors.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin firefighters were recently honored by Mayor Kirk Watson and the City of Austin for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-353803","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\/353803","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=353803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}