{"id":1033215,"date":"2026-08-30T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033215\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:56:16","slug":"massive-fire-erupts-overnight-in-sand-branch-area-of-dallas-county-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033215\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire erupts overnight in Sand Branch area of Dallas County, sheriff&#8217;s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fire<\/a> broke out overnight in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas County<\/a>, prompting what deputies said was a major response involving several crews.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office shared photos of the blaze on Facebook around 10 p.m. Deputies said it occurred in the 200 block of Burns Drive in the Sand Branch area.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t clear which fire department was the lead agency, though the sheriff&#8217;s office noted multiple departments responded to battle the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Officials later told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS News Texas<\/a>\u00a0the fire started around 9:30 p.m. and that crews were expected to be on the scene for a few more hours Sunday morning. Tires, RVs, and construction materials were burned, while nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution. Officials noted everyone got back home and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Crews also noted the area doesn&#8217;t have fire hydrants, so crews had to haul water in.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire broke out overnight in\u00a0Dallas County, prompting what deputies said was a major response involving several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,5025,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1033215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-fire","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\/117185283707730336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033215","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=1033215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}