{"id":43304,"date":"2025-11-10T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43304\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:07:07","slug":"body-found-following-south-dallas-house-fire-identified-as-49-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43304\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found following South Dallas house fire identified as 49-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials have identified the person who was found dead after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2025\/11\/09\/dallas-firefighters-find-body-after-extinguishing-fire-at-south-dallas-home\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2025\/11\/09\/dallas-firefighters-find-body-after-extinguishing-fire-at-south-dallas-home\/\">house fire Saturday<\/a> night in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/south-dallas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/south-dallas\/\">South Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Derrick Demond Hicks, 49, was found dead inside a home in the 4000 block of Spring Avenue on Saturday, according to the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s office and Dallas Fire-Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Firefighters arrived to the burning one-story home at about 10:34 p.m. and quickly worked to extinguish the fire, Jason Evans, a spokesperson for Dallas Fire-Rescue, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">After the fire was out, the man\u2019s body was found underneath debris from a partial roof collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have identified the person who was found dead after a house fire Saturday night in South Dallas.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,630,1225,1884],"class_list":["post-43304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fire","tag-public-safety","tag-south-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43304","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=43304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}