{"id":387105,"date":"2026-07-26T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:44:33","slug":"houston-bellaire-apartment-fire-at-least-16-units-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387105\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Bellaire apartment fire: At least 16 units damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Residents at a Bellaire apartment complex had to be relocated after a fire broke out on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston: Bellaire apartment fire <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire was reported at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Pont+Alba+Apartment+Homes\/@29.718258,-95.4542213,14.5z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640c1a5cdaeccb3:0xffb48d5594c9e0f4!8m2!3d29.7168421!4d-95.4488151!16s%2Fg%2F1vfp401m?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pont Alba apartments<\/a> on Bissonnet Street near Mulberry Lane.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Bellaire Fire Chief Davis Farquhar says the fire was handled as a three-alarm response. Units from Bellaire, West University, Southside, and Houston Fire Departments were called to help.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bissonnett-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Chief Farquhar said around 16 units were damaged in the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One firefighter was taken to a hospital for heat exhaustion. No other injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The American Red Cross has been contacted to assist residents who have been displaced.<\/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=\"\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials couldn&#8217;t confirm how many residents were displaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OnScene and Bellaire Fire Chief Davis Farquhar<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\/bellaire\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellaire<\/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; Residents at a Bellaire apartment complex had to be relocated after a fire broke out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6863,405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-387105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bellaire","tag-harris-county","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\/387105","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=387105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}