{"id":1020462,"date":"2026-08-24T06:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:21:19","slug":"third-dallas-firefighter-injured-sunday-battling-house-fire-cat-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020462\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Dallas firefighter injured Sunday battling house fire; cat rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas firefighter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/dallascityhall.com\/departments\/fire-rescue\/Pages\/default.aspx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas firefighter<\/a> was taken to a hospital and a cat was revived after a house fire spread to a neighboring home Sunday, Dallas Fire-Rescue said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The firefighter was the <a data-ylk=\"slk:third Dallas firefighter injured while battling house fires;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/article\/2-dallas-firefighters-injured-fighting-blaze-oak-22400048.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">third Dallas firefighter injured while battling house fires<\/a> Sunday. Earlier that morning, two firefighters were hospitalized with non-life-threatening burn injuries while responding to a blaze in East Oak Cliff. The department has not identified any of the injured firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Fire-Rescue units were dispatched around 6:26 p.m. to a home in the 6900 block of Echo Bluff Drive after a 911 caller reported a fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When firefighters arrived, they saw flames coming from the back of the one-story home. Crews began battling the blaze, but the fire spread to a neighboring home, requiring more firefighters to respond, according to Jason Evans, a Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No residents were injured. Firefighters were able to rescue a cat from inside the first home and resuscitated the pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One firefighter was taken to a hospital after suffering a non-life-threatening injury to their arm while trying to put out the flames, Evans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was brought under control around 7:15 p.m., though firefighters remained at the scene to make sure it didn&#8217;t spread any further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first home was heavily damaged, while the neighboring home had damage to its roof and attic area, Evans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up for the Morning Roundup, a free newsletter delivering the latest North Texas news each morning.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/newsletters\/morning-roundup\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=cta&amp;utm_campaign=textlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sign up for the Morning Roundup, a free newsletter delivering the latest North Texas news each morning.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a data-ylk=\"slk:Third Dallas firefighter injured Sunday battling house fire; cat rescued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/article\/third-dallas-firefighter-injured-battling-house-22400482.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Third Dallas firefighter injured Sunday battling house fire; cat rescued<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas firefighter was taken to a hospital and a cat was revived after a house fire spread&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1020463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,44446,14052,12768,8340,293574,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1020462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-downtown-dallas","tag-firefighter","tag-house-fire","tag-jason-evans","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020462","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=1020462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}