{"id":468853,"date":"2025-12-24T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468853\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:36:16","slug":"man-in-critical-condition-following-house-fire-in-dallas-singing-hills-area-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468853\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in critical condition following house fire in Dallas\u2019 Singing Hills area, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A man who went inside to rescue his wife from their burning home remains in critical condition after firefighters pulled him from the house in the Singing Hills neighborhood, Dallas-Fire Rescue spokesperson Jason Evans said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">DFR initially said Monday  the man had died after being rushed to Methodist Dallas Medical Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Firefighters responded at 11:58 a.m. to reports of a fire at the one-story house in the 1200 block of Whispering Trail, Evans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Once on scene, firefighters reported seeing smoke and fire coming from the house. A mail carrier who made the 911 call informed firefighters that people were still inside the home.<\/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\">Firefighters worked to first extinguish the blaze and then to look for anyone inside, Evans said. The fire was out by 12:30 p.m., officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Firefighters were able to pull a woman and an unresponsive man, later confirmed as her husband, from inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Evans said Tuesday that the initial report about the man\u2019s death was \u201cprematurely released.\u201d The man\u2019s vitals were restored by paramedics and emergency medical staff, and he remains hospitalized, according to Evans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The woman was not transported to the hospital for treatment, Evans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Dallas Morning News reached out to the man\u2019s family via phone call and social media Tuesday afternoon and did not immediately receive a response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who went inside to rescue his wife from their burning home remains in critical condition after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":468854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7712,5025,5292,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-468853","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-dallas-fortworth","11":"tag-fire","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468853","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=468853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}