{"id":394756,"date":"2026-08-01T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394756\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:54:24","slug":"houston-fire-department-responds-to-fire-at-houston-methodist-hospital-in-medical-center-houston-public-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394756\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Fire Department responds to fire at Houston Methodist Hospital in medical center \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/2026\/07\/31\/558431\/hfd-responds-to-apparent-fire-near-houston-methodist-hospital\/attachment\/media-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-558437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Media-1000x565.jpg\" alt=\"Hospital Building Fire ABC13\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABC13<\/p>\n<p>Images from SkyEye13 showed flames on a hospital\u2019s roof as firefighters rushed to contain them on July 31, 2026, in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Fire Department responded to a 2-alarm fire at the intersection of Fannin Street and University Boulevard just after 5 p.m. Friday, according to information <a href=\"https:\/\/cohweb.houstontx.gov\/ActiveIncidents\/Combined.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted online<\/a> by the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke could be seen billowing from the top of a Houston Methodist Hospital building near that intersection in the Texas Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the fire department nor Houston Methodist immediately responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement published by multiple local news outlets, a Houston Methodist spokesperson said, \u201cNo injuries were reported, and there is no ongoing risk to patients, visitors or employees.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC13 Images from SkyEye13 showed flames on a hospital\u2019s roof as firefighters rushed to contain them on July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,19027,138718,58,107098,57,66,223,14969],"class_list":["post-394756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-fire","tag-houston-fire-departmet","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-methodist-hospital","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas-medical-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394756","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=394756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}