{"id":271208,"date":"2025-10-02T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271208\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:34:09","slug":"70-year-love-ends-in-tragedy-fort-worth-woman-dies-in-fire-husband-seriously-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271208\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year love ends in tragedy: Fort Worth woman dies in fire, husband seriously hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Fort Worth family is facing heartbreaking loss after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/fatal-west-fort-worth-house-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">early-morning house fire killed a woman<\/a>\u00a0and two dogs and left her husband in the hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said the flames broke out before 4 a.m. Wednesday at a home on Lifford Place. Fort Worth fire officials said it took dozens of firefighters about 20 minutes to get the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors recall couple&#8217;s kindness<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Haley, who has lived across the street for nearly two decades, said she and her daughter Ahja had known the couple for years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve known them for 16 years. They&#8217;ve been the best neighbors. Amazing people,&#8221; Haley and Ahja said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters found the woman inside the home and tried to revive her in the front yard, but she did not survive. Her husband was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said the couple, both in their late 80s, had been married for about 70 years and had lived in the house since the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter injured battling flames<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter was also injured while battling the flames. Officials said she suffered burns but is expected to recover. The department said injuries like this serve as a reminder to re-examine safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes just weeks after another Fort Worth firefighter, Caleb Halverson, was seriously burned when a garage collapsed on him during a call.<\/p>\n<p>Officials weigh risk and safety<\/p>\n<p>Fire spokesperson Craig Trojacek said the department continues to balance the risks of saving lives with protecting firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That life scenario inside the house is every time\u2014we&#8217;re going to do whatever we can to get them out,&#8221; Trojacek said.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the fourth deadly fire in Fort Worth this year. Investigators believe Wednesday&#8217;s blaze was an accident, but the exact cause remains under review.<\/p>\n<p>Community rallies around surviving husband<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors say their focus now is supporting the surviving husband.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine losing everything you&#8217;ve built your whole life,&#8221; Haley said. &#8220;Any way we can, we just want to be there for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth family is facing heartbreaking loss after an early-morning house fire killed a woman\u00a0and two dogs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":271209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,8963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-271208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-north-texas","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115303184769521648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271208","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=271208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}