{"id":1430478,"date":"2025-07-30T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430478"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:10:07","slug":"70-year-old-man-dies-in-smith-county-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430478","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old man dies in Smith County house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1341177\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/SCFire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"151\" \/>SMITH COUNTY\u2013 An investigation is underway following a fatal house fire southwest of Tyler Tuesday night. According to a news release from Smith County, numerous departments responded to the blaze on Pecanridge Drive around 10:30. The victim, who has not been identified pending notification of next of kin, was said to be a 70-year-old man. He was the sole occupant of the home. An autopsy has been ordered. Officials said the house was a total loss. Foul play was not suspected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY\u2013 An investigation is underway following a fatal house fire southwest of Tyler Tuesday night. According to a news release from Smith County, numerous departments responded to the blaze on Pecanridge Drive around 10:30. The victim, who has not been identified pending notification of next of kin, was said to be a 70-year-old man. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">70-year-old man dies in Smith County house fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1430879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/SCFire.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 09:29:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/SCFire.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430478"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430733,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430478\/revisions\/1430733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}