{"id":563692,"date":"2026-02-03T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563692\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:40:10","slug":"75-year-old-woman-identified-after-far-east-dallas-apartment-fire-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563692\/","title":{"rendered":"75-year-old woman identified after Far East Dallas apartment fire Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 75-year-old woman was identified after an apartment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2026\/02\/01\/woman-found-dead-after-house-fire-in-far-east-dallas-officials-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2026\/02\/01\/woman-found-dead-after-house-fire-in-far-east-dallas-officials-say\/\">fire Sunday evening<\/a>, according to the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Linda Jewel Scott died at 7:04 p.m. in her home, according to the medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Firefighters responded to a fire alarm call around 6:41 p.m. at an apartment complex located at 2359 Highland Road, according to a previous statement from Dallas Fire-Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">First responders forced their way into a first-floor apartment, where the alarm could be heard, after knocking and not getting an answer.<\/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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__2UraD flex-none object-cover dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/YQQ2RG7BC5AKZIBACPW3SGKHUY.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Worth firefighters Julie Griffin and Samuel Gatlin pull hoses from a truck as they...\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Once there, they found Scott inside and pulled her out of the apartment. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The fire was extinguished around 7:26 p.m., according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The cause of the blaze is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 75-year-old woman was identified after an apartment fire Sunday evening, according to the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":563693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,11212,5025,5292,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-563692","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-county","11":"tag-east-dallas","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-public-safety","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\/116007693498375662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563692","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=563692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}