{"id":25138,"date":"2025-06-29T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25138\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:28:10","slug":"cause-of-hulen-mall-fire-in-forth-worth-yet-to-be-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25138\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Hulen Mall fire in Forth Worth yet to be determined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The cause of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/fort-worth-fire-department-responding-to-two-alarm-blaze-at-hulen-mall\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/fort-worth-fire-department-responding-to-two-alarm-blaze-at-hulen-mall\/\">fire at Hulen Mall<\/a> was still being investigated Sunday as the mall prepared to reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The fire in Fort Worth on Friday evening was first reported as a building and a roof collapse but was upgraded to a two-alarm blaze, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">When firefighters arrived at about 7:15 p.m., they saw smoke coming from the mall, located at Interstate 20 and 4800 S. Hulen St. in southwest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\">Fort Worth<\/a>, Fort Worth firefighters said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">People inside had started to evacuate on their own, but firefighters received reports of explosions inside the building and a possible roof collapse, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Inside, they found heavy smoke coming from the second floor of the mall. A second alarm was called as firefighters fought to extinguish the fire, which was brought under control in about 45 minutes, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">One person was injured and taken to a hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">During the day, some repair work was being done on the roof\u2019s skylight near where the fire was, said Craig Trojacek, a spokesperson for the Fort Worth Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It was confirmed the roof did not collapse but that the skylight partially broke and fell to the ground, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4096 \/ 2732\"   class=\"dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"4096\" height=\"2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/XKZEIFRSRVCVNB7OSF3MWWRJJQ.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Worth firefighters cool off after responding to a fire at Hulen Mall, Friday, June 27,...\"\/>Fort Worth firefighters cool off after responding to a fire at Hulen Mall, Friday, June 27, 2025, in Fort Worth.(El\u00edas Valverde II \/ Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">There\u2019s no cause yet on how the fire started as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The mall has fire and smoke damage in certain sections, Trojacek said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On Saturday, Hulen Mall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HulenMall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HulenMall\">posted to its Facebook page<\/a> that it would be closed and hoped to return to regular hours on Sunday. The Dallas Morning News has reached out the Hulen Mall for additional comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of the fire at Hulen Mall was still being investigated Sunday as the mall prepared to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,5025,7371,7372,16226,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-25138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-malls","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114768072165824365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138","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=25138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}