{"id":408548,"date":"2026-08-17T01:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:18:21","slug":"2-dead-in-military-helicopter-crash-north-of-austin-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408548\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead in military helicopter crash north of Austin, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashed in Central Texas on Wednesday, August 12, about 51 miles north of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Austin<\/a> along Interstate 35, according to the Bell County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Local news reports say the crash was reported around 2 p.m. The crash sparked a small grass fire, according to CBS affiliate station\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/2026\/08\/12\/helicopter-crash-reported-bell-county-texas\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTpry5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6M7Bae1TZ-GbMZz0qB0BQ2CaqdN6Hjx4h1BaslgS_A4PPOFhTZesm9f8-IyQ_aem_3STKn8vNRpLmYYckftzwCA\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">KWTX <\/a>in Waco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Salado Fire-Bell County ESD #1 said in a Facebook post at 2:41 p.m. that it is responding to a grass fire on Farm-to-Market Road 2843 near the reported crash site. First responders said the roadway is impassable, and drivers should avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Some local news outlets have suggested that the aircraft is linked to the Fort Hood military base, about 30 miles away from the crash site. A Fort Hood representative reportedly told a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcentv.com\/article\/news\/local\/plane-crashes-down-salado-scene-remains-active\/500-85c99ad7-511c-4fde-ba94-af55048dcc10?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook_6_News_KCEN_TV&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawTpqW5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMXZKUjNnU3FOQ2dDakVFemRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe6JSVqWHLNKXjmCO5cjgSOmaMOH9IqUoEDdEXxD4hfqIyVx4A4YyJC4ZT2vg_aem_kXl-PtqFlWvSoYHQ2hZnYw\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Tegna affiliate<\/a> that they are &#8220;looking into it.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether the helicopter struck any other structures in the area is unknown at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check in with MySA for updated details as they become available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashed in Central Texas on Wednesday, August 12, about 51&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,847,820],"class_list":["post-408548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysanews","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408548","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=408548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}