UPDATE (10:00 P.M.) – According to initial reports, the fire was initially called in to first responders, but upon the arrival of fire crews, an unidentified male met them with a gun.<\/p>\n
Reports indicate the suspect would go back inside the burning building and barricade himself inside.<\/p>\n
Despite the best efforts of negotiators, as the fire grew and began to consume the house, the individual did not move from the building.<\/p>\n
After crews were able to knock down the fire, which consumed most of the home, they found the barricaded person deceased in the doorway.<\/p>\n
The animals believed to be inside the home with the suspect were found safe at a neighboring residence. <\/p>\n
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UPDATE (9:45 P.M.) – Early reports from the scene of the incident indicate one victim was found within the doorway, and the dogs believed to be within the home were found safe at a neighbor’s home.<\/p>\n
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SAN ANTONIO – First responders are at the scene of an ongoing situation at a house fire on the North Side.<\/p>\n
Around 7:30 p.m. on Monday, fire crews arrived at the scene of a fire at a home near Chartwell Drive and Powhatan Drive on the North Side.<\/p>\n
According to the San Antonio Fire Department, San Antonio Police have arrived on scene and are working on an incident involving an individual inside the garage of the burning building.<\/p>\n
Heavy fire has been seen coming from the home. The fire department continues to stand by to see what help is needed.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. We’ll update this article as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (10:00 P.M.) – According to initial reports, the fire was initially called in to first responders, but…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,5025,39012,316,8141,7207,118180,7202,7203,23492,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-248360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-garage","11":"tag-home","12":"tag-incident","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-responders","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-smoke","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115252474978316013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248360","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=248360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}