{"id":438502,"date":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438502\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","slug":"2-people-1-dog-rescued-by-dallas-firefighters-during-fire-in-west-oak-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438502\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people, 1 dog rescued by Dallas firefighters during fire in west Oak Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Firefighters rescued two people and one dog from an apartment building during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fire\/\">fire<\/a> in west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/oak-cliff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/oak-cliff\/\">Oak Cliff<\/a> on Wednesday morning, Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesperson Jason Evans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials responded to reports of a fire at 2468 Bahama Drive at about 11:52 a.m. They arrived to see black smoke coming from a first-floor apartment, Evans said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Firefighters received reports that people were still inside the building and quickly deployed attack teams and search and rescue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Upon entering the complex, firefighters found and extinguished a fire that originated near a closet, Evans said. The person who had been in that unit when the fire began was able to escape before DFR arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/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\">Officials also found a woman sleeping inside her apartment, who they awakened as her apartment filled with smoke and assisted out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Another resident was rescued from the balcony of an apartment that was also filling with smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A third resident, who left the building before DFR arrived, was transported to a hospital after inhaling a lot of smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The complex had a total of eight units. Only one unit was damaged by the fire, but the others suffered significant smoke damage, Evans said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Apartment management has enough units to accommodate the residents who will be displaced, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It remains unclear what started the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescued two people and one dog from an apartment building during a fire in west Oak Cliff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":438503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,5025,10429,5292,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-438502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-oak-cliff","12":"tag-public-safety","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115697108634335359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438502","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=438502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}