{"id":51989,"date":"2025-11-16T16:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/51989\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:20:42","slug":"fire-engulfs-former-power-plant-in-galveston-county-police-say-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/51989\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs former power plant in Galveston County, police say \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/?attachment_id=536253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-536253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BacliffPlantFireBVFD-1000x750.jpg\" alt=\"Power Plant Fire BVFD\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacliff Volunteer Fire Department via Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to a structure fire at a decommissioned power plant in Galveston County on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>A fire at a decommissioned power plant in Galveston County early Sunday prompted a response from multiple emergency services departments, and nearby residents were advised to avoid the area as plumes of smoke billowed from the site.<\/p>\n<p>The fire erupted at the former PHR Peakers Plant in the 5500 block of Texas Highway 146, near the intersection of Avenue J and 29th Street in the Bacliff and San Leon area, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kemahpolicedepartment\/posts\/pfbid0TREGDT5rEga1Js9Uay61wWA7pvoGh3aEPtWAqY5UHV5751NBoTyeRJSL8qG5rtFQl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> by the Kemah Police Department. The Bacliff Volunteer Fire Department, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bacliffvfd\/posts\/pfbid02bGR6GwvLFbJ9UTCUCtwM4QsWoL5JAJ3E5cfZJA4cKfod7cnvCGUQBKWeV2rFNP3Rl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> shortly before 4 a.m., reported that it was responding to a \u201clarge structure fire\u201d as well as nearby grass fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a huge (plume) of smoke trailing in a northern direction,\u201d the Kemah Police Department wrote around 7 a.m. \u201cAll residents are advised to avoid the area and take precautions not to expose (themselves) to the smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were immediately reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bacliff Volunteer Fire Department via Facebook Firefighters responded to a structure fire at a decommissioned power plant in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29086,6782,2327,125,7216,12597,56,58,29087,57,66,223,29088,29089,1225],"class_list":{"0":"post-51989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bacliff","9":"tag-energy-environment","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-fire-department","12":"tag-galveston","13":"tag-galveston-county","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-industry","17":"tag-houston-news","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-power-plant","21":"tag-power-plant-fire","22":"tag-public-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989","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=51989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}