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2-Alarm Fire Destroys Amarillo Art Museum

By Dan Packard, Amarillo Globe-News
Photos of fire from Amarillo Globe-News
Video of fire from The Amarillo Globe-News
Video report from KFDA, Amarillo
Fire destroyed the Cowboy Art Museum at 2702 S.E. Third Ave. today. Four engines, one ladder truck and about 28 firefighters from the Amarillo Fire Department battled the blaze that sent a billowing black cloud [...]

Two Lubbock homes burn after storage shed fire spreads

By Joshua Hull, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Two homes caught fire Thursday evening in West Lubbock after a storage shed burst into flames. The blaze damaged two homes in the 6300 block of 29th Street, where firefighters were quickly able to extinguish the fire, minimizing damage. Nobody was injured. Lt. Andy Lawson, deputy fire marshal with the [...]

Sparks & Smoke Reported On Dallas DART Train

Video report by Kimberly Ball, CBS11 TV News

Photos from NBC5i, Dallas Fort Worth
Passengers aboard a DART train on Friday reported seeing sparks, smoke and an explosion while riding the train near the City Place station in Dallas. The incident happened near the intersection of Haskell Avenue and North Central Expressway, just north of downtown Dallas.

300 Acres, 1 Home Destroyed in Gorman Fire

Reported by Aaron Wilder, KRBC TV News, Abilene
Eastland County officials have confirmed that the fire in Gorman was caused by an electrical spark. Two separate fires began when a line from a broken telephone pole fell on the ground. One fire ignited several bails of hay, the other only burning about 20 acres. The [...]

Grassfire Breaks Out on Edge of Highway 191

Video report from KOSA TV News, Midland
Tense moments for motorists on 191 this afternoon as a fire broke out right on the edge of the highway. It wasn’t quite as big as fires we saw break out earlier this week, but the flames got dangerously close to drivers on the service road. Officials say the [...]

Brush fire burns 5 acres, 3 cars in Corpus Christi

By Rudi Reyes, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
A brush fire burned about 5 acres off Up River Road on Thursday. The blaze started about 4 p.m. and still had a few hot spots about 9 p.m., said Capt. Ted Vicha with the Corpus Christi Fire Department. Vicha said no one was injured in the fire, which took [...]

Rail bridge fire in Cuero halts train traffic

By Rebecca Holm, The Victoria Advocate
Firefighters spent four hours battling a fire on Thursday that has caused train traffic through Cuero to come to a halt. Four units from the Cuero Volunteer Fire Department responded to the blaze around 3:20 p.m., which was on a railroad trestle bridge just south of the Cuero Municipal Airport, [...]