{"id":113602,"date":"2025-08-02T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113602\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:07:14","slug":"houston-wedgewood-lane-fire-firefighter-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113602\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Wedgewood Lane fire: Firefighter injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A6C0C0EDF9869EF59AF19520CC117837.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighter injured while battling northwest Houston house fire\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; A firefighter was injured while helping to battle a house fire in west Houston on Friday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HoustonFire\/status\/1951509295486378118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">officials say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston Wedgewood Lane fire <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Firefighters were called to a fire in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/7600+Wedgewood+Ln,+Houston,+TX+77055\/@29.7907114,-95.4847787,16z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640c41f7a20edcf:0xf44b5a38d05b8839!8m2!3d29.7907114!4d-95.4800151?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDczMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">7600 block of Wedgewood Lane<\/a>, near I-10 and Wirt Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">A Houston Fire official said there were calls about a person who was inside the home that was on fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Firefighters went onto the roof to help, but one of them got hurt while coming off the roof. A mayday was called for the firefighter, prompting the two-alarm call.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The firefighter was taken to a hospital where she was said to be &#8220;conscious and alert.&#8221; She was said to be the only person injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Officials say the fire appeared to have damaged the back of the home.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. HFD arson investigators were called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">It&#8217;s not clear if there was a person who was in the home during the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> OnScene and Houston Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A firefighter was injured while helping to battle a house fire in west Houston on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,4345,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-113602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114960508204637706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113602","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=113602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}