{"id":359196,"date":"2025-12-20T02:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359196\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:42:12","slug":"woman-dies-in-deadly-apartment-fire-that-spread-across-3-buildings-in-southwest-houston-hfd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359196\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies in deadly apartment fire that spread across 3 buildings in southwest Houston, HFD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Firefighters responded to a fatal fire at an apartment complex on Braesridge Drive near West Bellfort Avenue in southwest Houston on Friday, according to the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said that a woman was found dead in one of the burned buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to Deputy Chief Bryan Sky-Eagle, firefighters believe the fire started on the third floor of the complex. Sky-Eagle also said that a hydrant located inside the complex helped firefighters establish water quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said that many elderly people live in the apartment complex. Sky-Eagle said there was a 90-year-old resident with smoke inhalation. He also added that an elderly man was being medically evaluated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SkyEye was overhead as flames engulfed sections of the apartment complex in southwest Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There were initial reports of multiple people missing, Sky-Eagle said, but he added that they were able to locate the tenants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">According to authorities, between 20 and 30 apartment units were initially impacted across 3 buildings in the complex.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Firefighters responded to a fatal fire at an apartment complex on Braesridge Drive near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177641,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-359196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-177641","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}