By Ron Maloney in The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise Seguin’s firefighters will again ask voters to support a vote on bringing the fire department under civil service rules governing hiring, promoting or firing employees.The Seguin Professional Fire Fighters Association announced Thursday its members will be walking door-to-door in local neighborhoods over the next several weekends asking voters [...]
Special Bulletin From Chief Boriskie
Statement from Local 341
HFD Chief Phil Boriskie announced his resignation at a Tuesday morning press conference. Boriskie will stay with the department in another capacity, but Mayor Annise Parker must now find another chief to run the department.
Rumors of the chief’s impending resignation began swirling over the weekend, after the mayor [...]
Gov. Rick Perry today sent Texas Task Force One, the state’s elite search and rescue team, to provide assistance in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. He also sent a letter to President Barack Obama offering additional state disaster response resources to assist emergency response teams, rescue workers and medical personnel. Since the U.S. [...]
By Cheryl Berzanskis in The Amarillo Globe-News
Photo by Stephen Spillman in The Amarillo Globe-News
On a recent frosty morning, Tom Noggler showed off firefighting equipment that can traverse tough terrain, plow through brush and haul the injured. The equipment doesn’t belong to the Amarillo Fire Department or another similar unit. Rather, it’s operated by a smaller [...]
A former firefighter and his wife are indicted for arson.
Jason and Kelly Doyle’s Lockhart home is now being restored to how it looked last year.
According to Caldwell County District Attorney Trey Hicks, firefighters responded to the home on December 30th, 2008. A fire was in the garage by the water heater. It was ruled accidental [...]
Story and photo by Erik Holmes in The Air Force Times
Tech. Sgt. Mike Gambill has 19 years with the Air Force as a firefighter. He wants to make it 20. Whether the Air Force lets Gambill mark two decades of service, though, depends on whether he can still do the job after losing his [...]
By Darren Meritz in The El Paso Times The three-member crew of a Southwest Med Evac helicopter died Friday night when it crashed during a training flight at McGregor Range. The pilot, William Montgomery of Avondale, Ariz., and...
neighborhood grocery store in northwest Houston is in now ruins after flames gutted the 5,000 square foot building late last night. When firefighters got to the scene off West Montgomery, they found flames shooting in...
The three-member crew of a Southwest Med Evac helicopter died when the aircraft crashed during a training flight at McGregor Range. Officials from Omniflight said in a news release that the helicopter’s pilot and two paramedics were...
By Kenneth Dean in The Tyler Morning Telegraph Standing in a cold drizzle as he scanned the burned church in front of him Thursday morning, senior Tyler Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Clay Alexander spoke the words...
By Gary Reaves at WFAA News, Dallas Video and photos from WFAA Firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze at the Nob Oaks condominiums in Northeast Dallas Wednesday night. The fire, in the 9700 block of Forest Lane, was reported around...
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