{"id":86838,"date":"2025-12-13T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86838\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:43:06","slug":"2-dead-in-far-north-dallas-apartment-fire-early-saturday-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86838\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead in Far North Dallas apartment fire early Saturday, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two residents have died after a fire broke out<\/a> in their Far North Dallas<\/a> apartment unit early Saturday morning, trapping both inside, officials said. <\/p>\n

Just before 3:30 a.m. Saturday, Dallas Fire-Rescue was dispatched to Bristol Apartment Living, a complex at 4055 Frankford Road in Far North Dallas, according to a statement from the fire department.<\/p>\n

Responders saw heavy fire<\/a> coming from the first floor of the two-story building and heard reports that residents were trapped inside, prompting a two-alarm response, according to a statement from DFR. <\/p>\n

One resident escaped the apartment and was taken in critical condition to a hospital, where they were later pronounced dead. Firefighters found<\/a> the second resident unresponsive in the apartment, and pronounced them dead from their injuries, according to the statement. <\/p>\n

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The fire was contained within an hour of the firefighters\u2019 response<\/a>, officials said. Damage was mostly in the apartment unit where the fire started, with some damage in the attic.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire is under investigation, according to the statement from the fire department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two residents have died after a fire broke out in their Far North Dallas apartment unit early Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21886,540,630,223,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-86838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-apartments","9":"tag-far-north-dallas","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-plano","13":"tag-plano-headlines","14":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86838","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=86838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}