{"id":472386,"date":"2026-10-21T06:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472386\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T06:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:02:15","slug":"firefighter-hospitalized-after-vacant-apartment-fire-in-southwest-houston-according-to-hfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472386\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter hospitalized after vacant apartment fire in southwest Houston, according to HFD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emergency crews responded to a fire at an apartment complex in southwest Houston Tuesday evening, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Houston Fire Department said about 100 firefighters were dispatched to an apartment complex in the 5400 block of Braesvalley Drive around 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials reported that the situation escalated into a 2-alarm fire. The apartments impacted had no power and were all vacant, according to HFD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials said that there were no civilians injured, but there was one firefighter injured, who was taken to a hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation is ongoing, and the cause of the fire remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the latest breaking news, weather, and traffic, ABC13 is now live on Disney+. Always on, always under the live tab on Disney+ and everywhere you stream.<\/p>\n<p>Submit a tip or story idea to ABC13<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story you think we should cover? Send it to ABC13 using the form below. If you have a video or photo to send, <a data-ylk=\"slk:terms of use apply.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/share\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">terms of use apply.<\/a> If you don&#8217;t, just hit &#8216;skip upload&#8217; and send the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews responded to a fire at an apartment complex in southwest Houston Tuesday evening, authorities said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-472386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472386","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=472386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}