{"id":478501,"date":"2026-10-27T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478501\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:36:15","slug":"el-paso-county-officials-to-brief-tuesday-on-horizon-city-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478501\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County officials to brief Tuesday on Horizon City flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Press Conference \" class=\"LivestreamEmbed_thumbnail__K7KfB\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/3023\/800\/0x1166\/80\/9411a390-9fce-4c77-92a2-73f93a62cffc-Image17.jfif\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency officials in El Paso County will be providing an updated briefing Tuesday afternoon on significant flooding that occurred Monday. <\/p>\n<p>El Paso County Emergency Services District No. 1\u2019s Horizon Fire Department will hold the press conference at 2 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>As emergency personnel continue evaluating affected areas, electrical power will remain shut off in impacted locations until safety assessments are completed and conditions are determined safe for restoration, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"http:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/sheriff-horizon-city-evacuations-underway-as-area-floods\/src=link&#039;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sheriff: Horizon City evacuations underway as area floods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials said additional information about the flooding incident, ongoing response efforts, safety precautions and available community resources would be provided during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>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><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":"Emergency officials in El Paso County will be providing an updated briefing Tuesday afternoon on significant flooding that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-478501","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\/478501","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=478501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}