{"id":373587,"date":"2026-07-15T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373587\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:28:10","slug":"kitchen-fire-displaces-residents-at-north-austin-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373587\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen fire displaces residents at North Austin apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A kitchen fire displaced residents from five apartment units Tuesday night at a North Austin apartment complex, according to the Austin Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews responded at 8:45 p.m. to an apartment fire at 8028 Gessner Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said occupants were safely evacuated as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/flooding-prompts-24-rescues-in-uvalde-as-more-rain-expected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Flooding prompts 24 rescues in Uvalde as more rain expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained to the kitchen where it started and was quickly extinguished, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>AFD said five apartment units were affected by the fire. The apartment manager is working with displaced residents to arrange temporary housing.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A kitchen fire displaced residents from five apartment units Tuesday night at a North Austin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-373587","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\/373587","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=373587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}