{"id":1028680,"date":"2026-08-28T03:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028680\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T03:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:02:25","slug":"power-outage-forces-evacuation-at-fort-worth-senior-living-center-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028680\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage forces evacuation at Fort Worth senior living center, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of a senior living center in north Fort Worth are being evacuated after the facility lost power Wednesday and remained without electricity Thursday, a city spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Trinity Metro buses are taking 10 residents of Discovery Village Alliance Town Center at 3401 Amador Drive to First Baptist Church in Keller, where a shelter is being set up.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Discovery Village Alliance Town Center said it made alternative arrangements for independent-living residents due to the outage, while assisted-living residents remain at the facility with backup power. The community said security personnel will stay on site and residents will be welcomed back once power is restored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our team is closely monitoring the situation and has a coordinated plan in place to welcome independent living residents back to the community once power is restored and the community is ready for their return,&#8221; the facility said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/seniorcenter.png#.png\" alt=\"seniorcenter.png \" height=\"356\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Texas<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth Fire Department checked on residents and found no injuries, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tri-County Electric Cooperative members lost service after a windstorm damaged a regional transmission provider&#8217;s substation in the Keller area,&#8221; Tri County Electric Cooperative said in a statement. &#8220;At the Cooperative&#8217;s request, its regional transmission provider is placing a mobile substation into service to serve affected members while the provider makes permanent repairs. Restoration for remaining affected members is expected later Thursday night.&#8221;<\/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":"Residents of a senior living center in north Fort Worth are being evacuated after the facility lost power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1028681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,10173,7372,8963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1028680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-fire-department","tag-fortworth","tag-north-texas","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\/117170914590047327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028680","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=1028680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}