{"id":462031,"date":"2026-10-10T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462031\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:24:10","slug":"1-dead-after-apparent-electrocution-in-downtown-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462031\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after apparent electrocution in downtown Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Austin Fire Department, a person died after a construction crew hit a power line while working on a high-rise building on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 One person is dead following an apparent electrocution in downtown Austin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Fire Department says it first received a call at around 2:40 p.m. Friday. AFD said a construction crew was working on a high rise located on Reserve Road in an elevated bucket, when they swung around and hit a power line, causing the mechanics of the bucket to malfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Energy responded to the scene and took about two hours to deenergize the power line so the people could be removed.<\/p>\n<p>One person was pronounced dead at the scene, while another was transported with no visible injuries, according to AFD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Austin Fire Department, a person died after a construction crew hit a power line while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-462031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462031","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=462031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}