{"id":472766,"date":"2026-10-21T23:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472766\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:56:14","slug":"arson-suspect-arrested-after-plano-apartment-inferno-leaves-10-units-unlivable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472766\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson Suspect Arrested After Plano Apartment Inferno Leaves 10 Units Unlivable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have an arson suspect in custody after an overnight fire at a Plano apartment complex sent one person to the hospital and left 10 units uninhabitable early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire broke out around midnight at the Villas at Chase Oaks apartments, off Legacy Drive just west of Central Expressway, FOX 4 <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported;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:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/plano-apartment-fire-investigated-arson-person-interest-custody\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, citing police and fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>Balcony rescue and roof collapse<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First responders rescued a man from a second-floor balcony after residents heard him calling for help. Paramedics took one person to a hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Timothy Howard, a first-floor resident, described watching firefighters reach the man as he escaped the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;As I was jumping, they had to get the ladder, and there was an older man on top of me,&#8221; Howard told the station. &#8220;And he was like, &#8216;help, help!&#8217; So they got the ladder. Thank God for these guys, these firefighters out here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The roof collapsed onto firefighters during the response, but none of the firefighters suffered injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>10 apartments uninhabitable<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The damage left residents of 10 apartments unable to return home. Apartment management and the Red Cross were helping displaced residents arrange temporary housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials had not confirmed how many people the fire displaced in the initial report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believed someone deliberately started the blaze, fire officials said. The initial report did not detail how the fire began or the evidence behind that assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Travon Tamar Andrews, 27, faces two arson charges, CBS News Texas <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported;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:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/plano-apartment-fire-legacy-drive-arson-investigation-october-21\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have an arson suspect in custody after an overnight fire at a Plano apartment complex sent one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-472766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472766","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=472766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}