{"id":407484,"date":"2026-08-15T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407484\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:58:11","slug":"fire-near-washington-ave-may-have-started-at-pizza-parlor-before-spreading-to-warehouse-hfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407484\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire near Washington Ave may have started at pizza parlor before spreading to warehouse: HFD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 15, 2026 4:23PM<\/p>\n<p>A burglary suspect was found dead in a flipped-over car after police say he fled from officers in The Heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A fire near Washington Avenue on Saturday morning may have started at a pizza parlor before spreading to a nearby warehouse, the Houston Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HFD District Chief Justin Gable said the call came in just after 7:30 a.m. as a warehouse fire. About 30 minutes later, ABC13&#8217;s Downtown Houston cameras captured footage of smoke rising from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At the scene, firefighters said they found the fire between two buildings and knocked down the flames to minimize exposure to nearby buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gable said a hazmat team and at least 50 firefighters responded to the scene. ABC13 crews reported seeing at least seven HFD trucks in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said they believe the fire started in the patio area of a pizza parlor before spreading to a vacant warehouse that was previously a gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Gable said arson investigators are looking into whether the fire was intentionally set.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 15, 2026 4:23PM A burglary suspect was found dead in a flipped-over car after police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[142556,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-407484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-142556","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407484","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=407484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}