{"id":360603,"date":"2026-07-04T01:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360603\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:53:10","slug":"houston-fire-department-engine-derails-metrorail-train-near-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360603\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Fire Department engine derails METRORail train near downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; An investigation is underway after a Houston Fire Department engine struck a METRORail train off its tracks near downtown.<\/p>\n<p> Houston firetruck hits METRO train   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">METRO Police responded to the crash at about 6:45 p.m. Friday near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/N+Main+St+%26+Hogan+St,+Houston,+TX+77009\/@29.774542,-95.3696267,15.25z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640b8d2623d2151:0x334ba317b8865b17!8m2!3d29.7760722!4d-95.3617099!16s%2Fg%2F11h9x7w4qy?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">North Main and Hogan Streets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say a Houston Fire Department (HFD) vehicle struck a METRORail train, causing the train to derail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vlcsnap-2026-07-03-20h44m26s896.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HFD says the engine was heading to an emergency call when the crash happened. The engine reportedly had its emergency lights and sirens on at the time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One person was taken to a hospital. That person&#8217;s injuries are said to be non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Other people were checked out at the scene, but no other injuries are being reported at this time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No other details are available at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This is a developing news report. We will update when more information is available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston METRO and the Houston Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/downtown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/houston-fire-department\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Fire Department<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/transportation\/metro\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Metro<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; An investigation is underway after a Houston Fire Department engine struck a METRORail train off its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[993,56,7189,58,57,5761,223,2053,840,216,393],"class_list":["post-360603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-downtown","tag-houston","tag-houston-fire-department","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-transportation","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360603","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=360603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}