(Reuters) – A tornado hit Austin, Texas, and thunderstorms pounded San Antonio, Dallas and Houston on Wednesday, bringing the parched Lone Star State drenching rains and destructive winds that knocked out power, flooded streets and kept emergency workers busy rescuing drivers stranded in high water. The tornado touched down early Wednesday in northeast Austin, tearing [...]
From Texas-fire.com The September story of catastrophic wildfires across Texas which led to the deaths of two people in Bastrop and a woman and child in Gladewater, forced mass evacuations, and burned hundreds of homes and thousands of acres of vegetation was the most viewed post at Texas-fire.com in 2011 seen 29,766 times. See story [...]
By David Schechter at WFAA, Dallas Read update from WFAA News here. See photos by Margie Culberson here. You’d think this late in the game, Santa Claus would be way too busy to just show up at the corner of Interstate 635 and Belt Line Road. But, then again, he tends to be there when [...]
By Amanda Rogers in The Mansfield News-Mirror and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Thirteen months ago, Jarrod Brodnax was a tough firefighter/paramedic for the Mansfield Fire Department, expecting his second child with wife, Melissa, and playing with his toddler, Maryn. Today, he has paralysis in his left arm and leg, can barely hold his 6-month-old daughter [...]
By Marvin Hurst at KENS News, San Antonio See video here. The number of San Antonians who have solar powered homes has dramatically increased over the past five years. “We’ve gone from seven, eight installations five years ago to more than 500 now,” said Lanny Sinkin, executive director of Solar San Antonio. However, there are [...]
By Shannon Wolfson at KXAN News, Austin See two videos here. Photo from Doug Hoagland and KXAN News, Austin The first call went out at 2:24 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 4. Dash-camera video shows Deputy Max Conley racing toward an area where a fire was spotted in a front yard. Conley begins to put [...]
From KENS News, San Antonio See photos of fire from KSAT News here. The investigation was continuing Monday as authorities worked to determine what caused a mobile home fire that killed three people early Sunday morning, including...
By Mark Wiggins at KVUE News, Austin Back to business, Texas lawmakers started 2012 with a sobering review of the wildfires of 2011, and their stunning cost in property and resources. “You could build a six-foot wooden...
See raw video from KVUE News here. From KEYE News, Austin See photos from KVUE News here. One person is dead and another critically injured after a home exploded in Central Austin Monday morning. According to Austin/Travis...
By Casey Norton at WFAA News, Dallas Fort Worth See this photo and other here. Children have climbed the trees in Briaroaks hundreds of times, but they’ve never had a story like this. A giant cottonwood tree...
By Julie Garcia in The Beaumont Enterprise Multiple residents and structures were evacuated after a grass fire became a threat on Craigen Road in LaBelle on Tuesday. The fire began around 2 p.m. in a pasture, according...
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