{"id":478911,"date":"2026-10-28T04:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478911\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T04:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:30:28","slug":"plano-apartment-fire-under-investigation-as-suspected-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478911\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano apartment fire under investigation as suspected arson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Plano Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating the Oct. 21 fire in the 600 block of Legacy Drive as suspected arson, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

Plano Fire-Rescue<\/a> crews responded to reports of a structure fire at an apartment complex around midnight. The first engine arrived within three minutes to find heavy smoke and flames coming through the building\u2019s roof.<\/p>\n

Firefighters rescued an adult man from a second-story balcony. He was transported to a hospital in stable condition, treated and later released, the release said.<\/p>\n

The fire affected approximately 10 to 12 apartment units. Property management and the American Red Cross assisted displaced residents. No firefighters were injured.<\/p>\n

Plano Police took 27-year-old Travon Andrews, identified as a person of interest, into custody at the scene, according to a press release from the City of Plano. Officials have not specified whether Andrews faces charges related to the fire.<\/p>\n

The Plano Fire Marshal<\/a>\u2019s Office is leading the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Plano Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating the Oct. 21 fire in the 600 block of Legacy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,161709,15241,162,161,1934],"class_list":["post-478911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-fire-marshal","tag-plano-fire-rescue","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478911","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=478911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}