{"id":397153,"date":"2026-08-04T06:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:34:17","slug":"fort-worth-fire-department-battles-grass-fire-near-train-tracks-that-spread-to-nearby-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397153\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Fire Department battles grass fire near train tracks that spread to nearby home"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 60 firefighters took more than 3 hours to bring the fire under control. Four residents of the affected home were displaced.<\/p>\n

FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 The Fort Worth Fire Department battled a fire Monday afternoon near East Vickery Boulevard and South Ayers Avenue that started as a grass fire and spread to a nearby home, officials said.<\/p>\n

Trains had to be stopped in the area as crews battled the fire.<\/p>\n

Accoridng to the Fort Worth Fire Department, multiple calls were received just after 1 p.m. regarding the grass fire on the east side of the city.<\/p>\n


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Upon arrival, officials say crews found the fire moving fast and a brush alarm was called to bring in more resources due to the extreme heat.<\/p>\n

While fighting the brush fire, officials say it spread to a home in the 900 block of Bradley Avenue. A brush truck was able to cross the tracks to fight the fire from across the tracks until more crews could get around the stopped train and take control.<\/p>\n

More than 60 firefighters fought the fire for more than three hours before it was brought under control and the hot spots wer extinguished, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a result of the fire, officials said four people were displaced from the affected home. But no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Helicopter footage appeared to show burnt grass along both sides of the train tracks. Firefighters could also be seen spraying down the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 60 firefighters took more than 3 hours to bring the fire under control. Four residents of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-397153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397153","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=397153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}