{"id":202686,"date":"2025-09-05T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202686\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:53:14","slug":"16-units-damaged-during-fire-at-apartment-complex-on-dumfries-drive-in-southwest-houston-firefighters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202686\/","title":{"rendered":"16 units damaged during fire at apartment complex on Dumfries Drive in southwest Houston, firefighters say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Multiple apartment units were destroyed by a fire in southwest Houston on Thursday night, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Houston Fire Department said the fire happened at an apartment complex on Dumpfries and Black Sandpiper Drive at about 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said while working to put the fire out, firefighters had trouble getting the pump on one of their firetrucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They haven&#8217;t disclosed what the issue was, but they still managed to put the fire out without anyone being hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The fire kept spreading and spreading. All of a sudden, you could hear the glass break. I was like, &#8216;Wow.&#8217; And you could see them, they were trying to push the people away, but there were so many people in the front,&#8221; Debbie Meyers, a neighbor, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">HFD said 16 units were damaged and an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Multiple apartment units were destroyed by a fire in southwest Houston on Thursday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[111966,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-202686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-111966","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115152499902627507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202686","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=202686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}