{"id":414905,"date":"2026-08-23T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:36:29","slug":"harker-heights-house-damaged-after-vehicle-fire-spreads-to-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414905\/","title":{"rendered":"Harker Heights house damaged after vehicle fire spreads to residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-23-at-10.59.55-am.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas &#8211; A vehicle fire spread to a nearby home on Saturday afternoon in Harker Heights, causing moderate damage to the residence and displacing one person, officials said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Harker Heights Fire Department was called about 2:38 p.m. to the 1100 block of Indian Trail, where crews found a vehicle fully engulfed in flames with fire extending to the home.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The first engine crew began attacking the fire while a second unit searched the residence, officials said. Firefighters determined no one was inside.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-23-at-11.02.42-am.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire was brought under control about 2:40 p.m. and fully extinguished by 2:45 p.m., according to the department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The vehicle sustained major damage, while the home sustained moderate damage. One civilian was evaluated and treated at the scene before being released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Six fire units and 13 personnel responded. The Harker Heights Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating the fire\u2019s cause and origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by Harker Heights Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas &#8211; A vehicle fire spread to a nearby home on Saturday afternoon in Harker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-414905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414905","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=414905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}