{"id":272367,"date":"2025-10-02T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272367\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:03:10","slug":"at-least-5-injured-in-reported-explosion-at-high-rise-building-in-downtown-houston-near-daikin-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272367\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 5 injured in reported explosion at high-rise building in downtown Houston near Daikin Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities are responding to the scene of a possible explosion at a high-rise building in Downtown Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The explosion reportedly caused a fire that first responders are working to contain. It occurred at 1319 Texas Street near Daikin Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Initial reports from HFD say that the explosion was caused by a boiler in the building on the 17th floor of the boiler room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">At least five people suffered burn injuries, HFD PIO Marty Lancton said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">This is a developing story and will continue to be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorMichael Horton headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/TB0VZ7DB5PYO36DHL4XWDRPJST\/\" title=\"View Michael Horton&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Horton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Michael is a Kingwood native who loves visiting local restaurants and overreacting to Houston sports. He joined the KPRC 2 family in 2024. He earned his BA from Texas A&amp;M University in 2022 and his MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are responding to the scene of a possible explosion at a high-rise building in Downtown Houston. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[141294,31139,4345,50,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-272367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-fire-explosion","9":"tag-hfd","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115305657418140414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272367","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=272367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}