{"id":398697,"date":"2026-08-05T21:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:50:57","slug":"1-taken-to-lubbock-burn-unit-after-tulia-house-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398697\/","title":{"rendered":"1 taken to Lubbock burn unit after Tulia house explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TULIA, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating a house explosion in Tulia that injured at least one person.<\/p>\n<p>Tulia Volunteer Fire Department Chief Johnny Shelburne said the explosion happened at approximately 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at 508 S. Austin Avenue. The building appeared to be a four-unit residence.<\/p>\n<p>Five people were inside at the time of the explosion. One person was transported to a burn unit in Lubbock. No additional information about the person\u2019s condition was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>First National Bank of Tulia identified Derek Fudge as one of those affected by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are with Derek Fudge after the devastating fire,\u201d the bank said. \u201cDerek had just moved into his own place and tragically lost everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A fund was established for Fudge at First National Bank in Tulia. Donations can be made at any First National Bank branch or the Swisher County Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TULIA, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating a house explosion in Tulia that injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-398697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398697","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=398697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}