{"id":355677,"date":"2026-06-30T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:45:08","slug":"4-rescued-from-balcony-after-2-alarm-apartment-fire-in-sw-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355677\/","title":{"rendered":"4 rescued from balcony after 2-alarm apartment fire in SW Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were rescued from a third-floor balcony after a two-alarm apartment fire broke out in southwest Houston. Here&#8217;s what firefighters are saying.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Four people were rescued from a third-floor balcony after a two-alarm apartment fire broke out Tuesday morning in southwest Houston, according to the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported just after 6 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 2800 block of South Bartell Drive, near the Houston Stadium area.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Fire Department officials said firefighters rescued four people from a third-floor balcony.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries or fatalities have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was upgraded to a second alarm. A Houston Fire Department spokesperson said that was likely because of the age of the apartment complex and possibly the need for additional manpower due to the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not released additional information about what caused the fire or the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were rescued from a third-floor balcony after a two-alarm apartment fire broke out in southwest Houston.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-355677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355677","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=355677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}