{"id":403693,"date":"2026-08-11T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:12:07","slug":"safd-firefighter-arrested-placed-on-administrative-duty-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403693\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFD firefighter arrested, placed on administrative duty, department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Edwards, 49, was taken into custody in Comal County on Aug. 6, records show<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Edwards, a San Antonio firefighter, was placed on administrative leave, after an assault in Comal County. (KSAT-12)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">SAN ANTONIO  \u2013 A San Antonio Fire Department firefighter was arrested last week and is now on administrative duty, an SAFD spokesperson confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Ryan Edwards, 49, was taken into custody in Comal County on Aug. 6, according to jail records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Edwards faces one count of assault causing bodily injury and one count of interfering with emergency request for assistance, records indicate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Records show Edwards was released from the Comal County jail on a $6,000 bond on the same day of his arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">KSAT has reached out to the Comal County Sheriff\u2019s Office for information on Edwards\u2019 arrest and has not heard back yet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">This article will be updated once more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO: <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorRocky Garza headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/KLKY0MQWH1HX57EN7N24HIQUH6\/\" title=\"View Rocky Garza&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Garza<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Rocky Garza Jr. is a Content Gatherer at KSAT-12 News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Edwards, 49, was taken into custody in Comal County on Aug. 6, records show Ryan Edwards, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[698,11849,294,633,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-403693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bexar-county","tag-comal-county","tag-crime","tag-safd","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403693","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=403693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}