{"id":406574,"date":"2026-08-14T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406574\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:16:08","slug":"dallas-man-facing-arson-charge-after-setting-apartment-on-fire-following-a-domestic-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406574\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas man facing arson charge after setting apartment on fire following a domestic dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dallas apartment fire early Friday morning displaced 24 residents and led to an arson arrest, according to Dallas Fire-Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called around 12:27 a.m. to the Buena Vista Apartments in the 3900 block of Altoona Drive. Crews found heavy fire coming from the front and side of the two-story building and battled the flames for nearly two hours before extinguishing them at 1:55 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Four apartment units sustained moderate to significant damage. The displaced residents include 13 adults and 11 children. The American Red Cross was contacted to help with their needs.<\/p>\n<p>DFR investigators said the fire was started by a man in his mid-30s following a domestic dispute. Everyone escaped safely, but the man suffered non-life-threatening upper-body injuries. He was treated at a hospital and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He was later charged with arson and booked into the Lew Sterrett Justice Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas apartment fire early Friday morning displaced 24 residents and led to an arson arrest, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12183,294,102,9379,104,103],"class_list":["post-406574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-arson","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406574","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=406574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}