{"id":411926,"date":"2026-08-20T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411926\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:44:08","slug":"man-in-his-70s-killed-after-parked-rv-catches-fire-on-howard-drive-in-southeast-houston-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411926\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 70s killed after parked RV catches fire on Howard Drive in southeast Houston, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 72-year-old man is dead after an RV fire left him trapped in southeast Houston overnight, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Wednesday night, the Houston Police Department said an officer was working on a report across the street when she noticed smoke coming from a parked RV on Howard Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;(The officer) got over here as fast as she could, but unfortunately&#8230; the RV was engulfed, and there was nothing she could do, so she tried,&#8221; HPD Lt. R. Willkens said at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Willkens said the victim was a 72-year-old man who lived in the RV and had spoken to his family earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It sounds to me like a horrible, tragic accident, so prayers for the family,&#8221; Willkens said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The lieutenant said it&#8217;s unclear how the fire happened, but an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 72-year-old man is dead after an RV fire left him trapped in southeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[143743,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-411926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-143743","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411926","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=411926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}