{"id":1003435,"date":"2026-08-16T00:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:50:22","slug":"dallas-man-charged-with-arson-after-apartment-fire-displaces-24-residents-in-oak-cliff-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003435\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas man charged with arson after apartment fire displaces 24 residents in Oak Cliff, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dallas man was arrested after authorities say he intentionally set an apartment fire following a domestic dispute, displacing two dozen residents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/oak-cliff\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oak Cliff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raydrick Lee, 33, was injured in the fire and taken to a hospital for treatment before being booked into the Dallas County Jail on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/arson\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">felony arson charge<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-fire-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Fire Rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were dispatched at 12:27 a.m. Friday to the Buena Vista Apartments in the 3900 block of Altoona Drive, where heavy flames were coming from the front and side of a two\u2011story building. Firefighters brought the blaze under control after nearly two hours, declaring it out at 1:55 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined Lee intentionally started the fire, which caused moderate to significant damage to four two\u2011story units.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/raydrick-lee.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"raydrick-lee.jpg \" height=\"631\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Raydrick Lee, 33<\/p>\n<p>                Dallas County Jail<\/p>\n<p>All 24 residents \u2013 including 13 adults and 11 children \u2013 escaped safely but were displaced. The American Red Cross was notified to assist those affected.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas man was arrested after authorities say he intentionally set an apartment fire following a domestic dispute,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,8339,1596,44446,8963,10429,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1003435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-arson","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-north-texas","tag-oak-cliff","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117102446412218324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}