{"id":405831,"date":"2026-08-13T21:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405831\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:14:12","slug":"stolen-fort-worth-fd-ambulance-driven-to-austin-driver-shot-dead-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405831\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Fort Worth FD ambulance driven to Austin, driver shot dead \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is dead after stealing an ambulance belonging to the Fort Worth Fire Department and driving it to Austin, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Fort Worth Fire Department, the ambulance was stolen from Fire Station 4 at 2954 Old Mansfield Road in Fort Worth on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Fire Department officials said multiple agencies were involved in searching for the stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was later located in Austin, almost 200 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, state troopers were notified at 6:30 a.m. that the stolen ambulance was traveling southbound on I-35 in Williamson County. Troopers attempted to pull the vehicle over, but the driver refused to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The DPS said the driver took the ambulance onto South U.S. 290 and intentionally rammed multiple vehicles and evaded DPS troopers. State troopers attempted a PIT maneuver to stop the ambulance, but it was unsuccessful. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/download-45.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSpectrum NewsSpectrum News<\/p>\n<p>The DPS said the ambulance continued ramming vehicles as it drove onto the upper deck of I-35, at which point a DPS trooper shot the driver, who was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department, the upper deck of I-35, as well as a large portion of southbound I-35 from US Highway 183 into the downtown area, were closed for several hours following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers were encouraged to avoid the area and use alternative routes if possible, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is dead after stealing an ambulance belonging to the Fort Worth Fire Department and driving it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[132,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-405831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-austin","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\/405831","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=405831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}