{"id":960782,"date":"2026-07-26T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:17:15","slug":"three-alarm-apartment-fire-in-bellaire-displaces-residents-sends-firefighter-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960782\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-alarm apartment fire in Bellaire displaces residents, sends firefighter to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>BELLAIRE, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A late-night fire tore through an apartment complex in Bellaire on Saturday night, prompting a three-alarm response and drawing dozens of firefighters to the scene, according to the Bellaire Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Crews were called around 9:30 p.m. to the Pont Alba apartments in the 4300 block of Bissonnet Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Bellaire firefighters were joined by mutual aid from the West University Place Fire Department, Southside Place Fire Department and the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Officials said an estimated 16 apartment units were affected, though the number of residents impacted was not immediately clear. No civilian injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">One firefighter was taken to a local hospital to be treated for heat exhaustion, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The American Red Cross was notified and a representative was dispatched to help residents. About 60 firefighters responded as crews worked to get the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELLAIRE, Texas \u2013 A late-night fire tore through an apartment complex in Bellaire on Saturday night, prompting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":960783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[82593,28576,386376,109482,31139,4345,16300,386378,358,3187,386377],"class_list":["post-960782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-american-red-cross","tag-bellaire","tag-bellaire-fire-department","tag-fries","tag-hfd","tag-houston","tag-houston-fire-department","tag-southside-place-fire-department","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-west-university-place-fire-department"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116987418825006797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960782","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=960782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}