{"id":426843,"date":"2025-12-05T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426843\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:34:14","slug":"woman-arrested-after-allegedly-poking-holes-in-hose-as-dallas-fire-rescue-battled-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426843\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after allegedly poking holes in hose as Dallas Fire-Rescue battled fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A woman was arrested and faces felony charges after she allegedly poked holes in a fire hose as Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters battled a house fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">According to Dallas-Fire Rescue spokesperson Jason Evans, multiple units responded just before 1 a.m. Friday to a house fire in the 2900 block of Prosperity Avenue. Evans said crews were able to get the fire put out by 1:35 a.m., but that someone attempted to stab a fire hose as crews worked to extinguish the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A Dallas police spokesperson said officers responded at about 1:25 a.m. after firefighters called for help and said a suspect, identified as Jermecia Murphy, 32, intentionally damaged firefighting equipment, which impeded their efforts to fight the fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas police said Murphy was arrested and faces charges of felony criminal mischief between $30,000 to $150,000 and interference with public duties, a class B misdemeanor, in addition to drug possession charges.<\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jail records show Murphy was booked into the Dallas County jail early Friday.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2025\/12\/03\/third-alarm-fire-at-arlington-apartment-complex-displaces-15-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three-alarm fire at Arlington apartment complex displaces 15 residents<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/12\/01\/mother-her-10-year-old-daughter-among-2-who-died-in-mobile-home-fire-in-lewisville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother, her 10-year-old daughter killed in mobile home fire in Lewisville<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was arrested and faces felony charges after she allegedly poked holes in a fire hose as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,7290,14842,5025,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-426843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115667932112643100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426843","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=426843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}