{"id":473372,"date":"2026-10-22T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473372\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:46:09","slug":"video-plano-apartment-fire-investigated-as-arson-person-of-interest-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473372\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Plano apartment fire investigated as arson, person of interest in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NATS-TX-apartment-bldg-arson-300x170.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1410933\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A late-night apartment fire in Plano sent one man to the hospital. Police believe the fire was intentionally set and have a person of interest in custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire started around midnight at the Villas at Chase Oaks apartments, located off Legacy Drive just west of Central Expressway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First responders rescued a man from a second-story balcony after residents heard him yelling for help. Paramedics took the man to the hospital with minor injuries, and no one else was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A roof collapsed onto firefighters during the incident, but none of them were injured, officials said. Officials say 10 units inside the building are uninhabitable because of the damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fire department spokesperson said officials believe the fire was arson. Police have one person in custody as they investigate.<\/p>\n<p>KDFW-TV FOX 4 Dallas<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9c176b0a955c7004b508c5f692bf76b4.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Suspect arrested in Plano after overnight fire\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A late-night apartment fire in Plano sent one man to the hospital. Police believe the fire was intentionally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,27],"class_list":["post-473372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473372","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=473372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}