{"id":354675,"date":"2026-08-12T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/2-people-died-in-military-helicopter-crash-near-fort-hood-officials-say"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:41:17","slug":"2-people-died-in-military-helicopter-crash-near-fort-hood-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/2-people-died-in-military-helicopter-crash-near-fort-hood-officials-say","title":{"rendered":"2 folks died in army helicopter crash close to Fort Hood, officers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">An Army Apache helicopter crashed in a central Texas field on Wednesday, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated, sheriff\u2019s official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials from nearby Fort Hood announced that the AH-64 Apache helicopter had crashed. Cliff Coleman, spokesman for the Bell County Sheriff\u2019s office confirmed that both occupants died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No cause of the crash was immediately announced. Fort Hood\u2019s criminal investigation division was leading the crash investigation, Coleman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The helicopter did not hit any homes or other structures when it crashed, Coleman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cYou could tell it was a violent crash,\u201d Coleman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">\u201cOur immediate priority is securing the site and supporting the initial response efforts,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Ethan Diven, acting commanding general. &#8220;Our thoughts are with the crew and their families as we await further information.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/2-people-died-military-helicopter-crash-fort-hood-135592627\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army Apache helicopter crashed in a central Texas field on Wednesday, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31070,25466,31037,23061,31071,31069,31036,31072,5139,6214,102],"class_list":["post-354675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ah-64-apache","tag-apache","tag-bell-county-sheriff","tag-brig-gen","tag-central-texas","tag-cliff-coleman","tag-ethan-diven","tag-fort-hood","tag-sheriff","tag-spokesman","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354677,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354675\/revisions\/354677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}