{"id":371224,"date":"2026-07-13T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371224\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:36:08","slug":"1-person-dies-in-flash-flooding-at-texas-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371224\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person dies in flash flooding at Texas Air Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb2-plus4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LacklandAFB_Photo02.JPG\" alt=\"A metal sign with black lettering reading \u201cWelcome to Lackland Air Force Base Gateway to the Air Force\u201d above a multi-lane road.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-font lh-default ma0 mh3 mt0 pb3\">\n\t\t\t\tA person died Saturday evening at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas after becoming trapped in a vehicle during severe flash flooding, the Texas military base said. (Rose L. Thayer\/Stars and Stripes)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">A person died Saturday evening at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas after becoming trapped in a vehicle during severe flash flooding, the Texas military base said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The person, who has not been identified pending next-of-kin notification, was in a vehicle on Hall Street at Lackland Air Force Base. The base fire department responded, and the person was declared dead at the scene, the base said.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Between 3 and 6 inches of rain fell upstream of the base, according to meteorologists with local TV station KSAT. This caused Leon Creek, which is near Hall Street, to rise about 10 feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Lackland Air Force Base is home to the service\u2019s basic training as well as some pilot training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person died Saturday evening at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas after becoming trapped in a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131490,131491,76057,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-371224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-death-floods-joint-base-san-antonio","tag-flooding-san-antonio","tag-lackland-air-force-base","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371224","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=371224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}