City Manager Sheryl Sculley narrowed her list of candidates for San Antonio’s new fire chief to five this week. The list includes two local names, two candidates from Phoenix (where Sculley was an assistant city manager) and an African American fire chief who was the first minority to hold the position in a [...]
Crews remained on the scene through the night to monitor hot spots after battling a massive grassfire that spread rapidly over 250 to 300 acres Tuesday just outside of Copperas Cove in Coryell County.
The fire was ignited by a hot spot from a smaller 30-acre fire that crews contained on Monday.
The afternoon heat, dry vegetation [...]
It broke out at the storage facility on Boone at Bissonnet. The massive fire caused several small explosions. HazMat crews were called to the scene. Firefighters had to go into defensive mode to battle the flames. Click Here to See the Video
By Paul Roberts, The Daily Toreador
A Lubbock construction worker suffered a broken arm and possible other serious injuries after falling 28 feet in the Marsha Sharp construction site at Fourth Street and Avenue U Monday morning, according to the Lubbock Fire Department.
Lt. Mark Ethridge of the Lubbock Fire Department said at 10:05 a.m. Monday, representatives [...]
“I woke up to a large woomph and the ceiling came down on top of me and I had people saying “hey buddy are you alright?” let me get you out of there. I thought it was a tornado. That’s how Mark Liddle described the situation after an explosion rocked his Wichita Falls home.
It happened [...]
A firefighter was injured battling a house fire in northeast Houston late Sunday, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Aldine-Westfield and Eastex firefighters responded to the blaze at a home on Huse Street near Sachar Street at about 11:30 p.m.
Crews found the garage engulfed in flames, which were spreading to the home and a car.
Agreement, which still needs approval from Austin City Council, designed to reduce students’ commute, improve training.
Before they can even think about extinguishing a blazing building, these future firefighters have to pack the truck and the trailer and the school bus.
Cadets in Austin Community College’s increasingly popular firefighter training academy must travel to do just [...]
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