{"id":415039,"date":"2026-08-24T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:42:09","slug":"cat-rescued-firefighter-injured-after-dallas-house-fire-spreads-to-neighboring-home-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415039\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat rescued, firefighter injured after Dallas house fire spreads to neighboring home, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cat has been resuscitated, and a firefighter was injured after a Dallas house fire Sunday evening, officials said.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-fire-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Fire-Rescue<\/a> units were called to the house in the 6900 block of Echo Bluff Dr. just before 6:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, firefighters saw heavy fire conditions in the back of the one-story home. They launched an offensive attack, DFR said, but the fire spread to a neighboring home, and a second alarm was called.<\/p>\n<p>A cat from inside the original home was resuscitated by DFR personnel and one firefighter was taken to the hospital after a non-life-threatening injury while working to extinguish the fire, DFR said. None of those who lived in the homes were injured.<\/p>\n<p>DFR said the fire was under control around 7:15 p.m.; however, they continued working to make sure all hot spots were out.<\/p>\n<p>The original house sustained severe damage, DFR said, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cat has been resuscitated, and a firefighter was injured after a Dallas house fire Sunday evening, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,9379,104,103],"class_list":["post-415039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","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\/415039","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=415039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}