{"id":477667,"date":"2026-10-27T01:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477667\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:22:07","slug":"sheriff-horizon-city-evacuations-underway-as-area-floods-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477667\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff: Horizon City evacuations underway as area floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HORIZON CITY, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Floodwaters pushed into a Horizon City neighborhood Monday, prompting evacuations as authorities worked to determine what caused the sudden inundation.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed that seven homes had been evacuated as of Monday afternoon. The flooding was first reported near Kila Street and Horizon Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Information remained limited, but the El Paso County Emergency Services District No. 2 said it is investigating. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office said officials believe the flooding may be due to a dam in a desert area that breached.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Emergency Management has been activated.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HORIZON CITY, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Floodwaters pushed into a Horizon City neighborhood Monday, prompting evacuations as authorities worked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-477667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477667","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=477667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}