{"id":416229,"date":"2026-08-25T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416229\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:48:10","slug":"large-apartment-fire-burns-in-fort-worth-1-firefighter-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416229\/","title":{"rendered":"Large apartment fire burns in Fort Worth, 1 firefighter injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wek4kjpqurk64crc.jpg\" alt=\"Apartment fire burns near I-30 in Fort Worth\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wek4kjpqurk64crc.jpg\" alt=\"Apartment fire burns near I-30 in Fort Worth\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-39f6236e=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth firefighters are battling a large fire at an apartment complex on the west side of the city.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire is burning at a two-story apartment building in the 6700 block Calmont Avenue, which is near Interstate 30 and Green Oaks Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Images from nearby traffic cameras and FOX 4 crews at the scene appear to show the building fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">At least three alarms have been sounded so far, meaning dozens of firefighters are at the scene.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/082526-sw-calmont-fire-bell-kdfweme002_06_27_02_mp_00.02.57.10.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Thick black smoke is visible on Interstate 30 near Green Oaks Road. Traffic reporter Chip Waggoner said the smoke is leading to some backups and traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am-news-clean-tuesday-2026_08_25-kdfweme001_03_58__00.20.05.38.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It\u2019s not yet clear if there are any injuries, although a FOX 4 crew saw at least one firefighter being taken away in the back of an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It&#8217;s not clear how many people are impacted.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FOX 4 will continue to update this story as more details become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from incident reports and a FOX 4 photographer who is at the scene of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth firefighters are battling a large fire at an apartment complex on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-416229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416229","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=416229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}