{"id":378867,"date":"2026-07-19T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378867\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:59:07","slug":"northwest-houston-fire-kills-1-person-trapped-in-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378867\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Houston fire kills 1 person trapped in home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; First responders are reporting to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheriffEd_HCSO\/status\/2078887402425168365?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fire in northwest Houston<\/a> that has killed at least one person.<\/p>\n<p> Northwest Houston: Maple Leaf house fire   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire was reported late Sunday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/9600+Maple+Leaf+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77064\/@29.9077776,-95.5539557,14.5z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640ce3052796ef7:0x6197c56e22a960ac!8m2!3d29.9126552!4d-95.5494382?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on Maple Leaf Drive<\/a>, near the Sam Houston Tollway and West Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fire crews from the Cy-Fair Fire Department and the Harris County Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office are said to be at the scene along with Harris County deputies.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The sheriff&#8217;s office confirmed with FOX 26 that one person has died. The person was reportedly trapped inside the home during the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No other information is available at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This is a breaking news report. We will update when more information is available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Cy-Fair Fire Department and the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; First responders are reporting to a fire in northwest Houston that has killed at least one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-378867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378867","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=378867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}