{"id":304327,"date":"2025-10-15T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304327\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:30:21","slug":"fort-worth-firefighter-reunited-with-premature-son-after-near-death-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304327\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth firefighter reunited with premature son after near death house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home together at last. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/fort-worth-firefighter-caleb-halvorson-burn-recovery-garage-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Worth firefighter who nearly died in the line of duty<\/a> is home with his premature son.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Caleb Halvorson was at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, fighting to survive after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/chilling-video-captures-moment-engulfed-garage-collapsed-on-fort-worth-firefighter-trapping-him-inside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">engulfed garage roof collapsed<\/a> on him last month, his son, Hudson, was in a NICU.<\/p>\n<p>Trapped under a burning, collapsed roof and pulled from debris<\/p>\n<p>Just over a month ago, Caleb Halvorson was trapped under a collapsed garage roof while fighting a fire on South Williams Street in Fort Worth&#8217;s historic Southside neighborhood. A mayday call went out \u2014 every firefighter&#8217;s worst fear. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was trapped for nearly two minutes before his crew pulled him from the debris. Since then, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/family-story-fort-worth-firefighter-injured-garage-collapse-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">road to recovery has been long<\/a>, with multiple skin grafts, infections and burns deeper than doctors initially thought.<\/p>\n<p>Motivated by newborn in NICU<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, his greatest motivation, his newborn son, was waiting for him. Baby Hudson was born 13 weeks early, weighing only 1 pound and 9 ounces.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>Hudson spent nearly four months in the NICU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the two fighters reunited at home.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fwff-caleb-halvorson-son.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"fwff-caleb-halvorson-son.jpg \" height=\"422\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Glen E Ellman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home together at last. A Fort Worth firefighter who nearly died in the line of duty is home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":304328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,10173,7372,8963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-304327","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-fort-worth-fire-department","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-north-texas","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304327","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=304327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}