{"id":405039,"date":"2026-08-13T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:00:08","slug":"2-army-soldiers-killed-in-texas-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405039\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Army soldiers killed in Texas helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <img width=\"760\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/web1_2026-08-12T224406Z_2125250416_RC26XMAWET36_RTRMADP_3_USA-HELICOPTER-CRASH.JPG\" class=\"img-fluid h-100 w-100\" alt=\"CLIFF COLEMAN\/BELL COUNTY SHERIFF\u0092S OFFICE\/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS&#10;                                Emergency personnel respond to the crash of an AH-64 Apache military helicopter, attached to the Army base of Fort Hood, near Salado, Texas, today.\" style=\"max-height:600px;object-fit:contain;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>CLIFF COLEMAN\/BELL COUNTY SHERIFF\u2019S OFFICE\/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel respond to the crash of an AH-64 Apache military helicopter, attached to the Army base of Fort Hood, near Salado, Texas, today.<\/p>\n<p>Two U.S. Army soldiers died when an Apache military helicopter attached to the service\u2019s Fort Hood base crashed into a field in Texas today, sparking a large grass fire, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred in Bell County, about 60 miles north of the state capital Austin, said Cliff Coleman, a spokesperson with the Bell County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Bell County justice of the peace declared dead two people who had been on board, Coleman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, an Apache helicopter crashed in Bell County during Fort Hood operations, killing two members of our military,\u201d Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on X.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hood confirmed in a statement that an AH-64 attack helicopter crashed and two soldiers died but withheld their identification pending notification to their families.<\/p>\n<p>Images provided by Coleman showed firefighters examining burning debris amid a large patch of charred grass, with smoke billowing from the scene. Several local fire departments responded to the blaze, he said.<\/p>\n<p>                        Don&#8217;t miss out on what&#8217;s happening!<\/p>\n<p class=\"email-form-blurb m-0\">Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It&#8217;s FREE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLIFF COLEMAN\/BELL COUNTY SHERIFF\u2019S OFFICE\/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS Emergency personnel respond to the crash of an AH-64 Apache military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2631,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-405039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-national-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405039","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=405039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}