{"id":468429,"date":"2026-10-17T02:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468429\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T02:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:48:17","slug":"man-goes-door-to-door-helping-people-escape-apartment-fire-in-sw-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468429\/","title":{"rendered":"Man goes door-to-door helping people escape apartment fire in SW Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 A man who lives at The Athena apartments in southwest Houston helped first responders get people out of their units as fire started to spread Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">From our KPRC 2 Tower camera, you could see thick gray and then white smoke billowing across the skyline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Anthony DeVeaux, one of the tenants, told us he first smelled smoke and then got a knock on the door shortly after 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cWhen I opened the door, you could just see flames, about 10 units totally engulfed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">DeVeaux says he then jumped in to help, going door to door to get other tenants out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Houston Fire Department confirmed the complex, located at 10101 Forum Park Drive between Bissonnet Street and Sugar Branch Drive, was on fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">They said no one had been injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">This story is developing and KPRC 2 Reporter Sandy Torres is at the scene. We\u2019ll keep you updated with new information as it comes in. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792205297_190_kprc_breaking.webp\" width=\"234\" height=\"50\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf eUxjKG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 A man who lives at The Athena apartments in southwest Houston helped first responders get people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18898,56,7189,58,57,159364],"class_list":["post-468429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-apartment-fire","tag-houston","tag-houston-fire-department","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-southwest-houton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468429","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=468429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}