It took almost three years, but The Woodlands Fire Department has received an upgraded Insurance Service Office rating. Ratings from the New Jersey-based ISO are used by the majority of residential and business property insurance providers to calculate premiums. The ISO ratings range from 10 to one, with the lowest number indicating the highest level [...]
Twelve fire units were dispatched to a large fire at an apartment complex in West El Paso early Thursday, Fire Department Lt. Mario Hernandez said in a news release. Just after 3 a.m., firefighters reported heavy smoke and flames at the Caprock Apartments in the 6000 block of Caprock. Hernandez said firefighters quickly extinguished the [...]
Hundreds of firefighters saluted standing at attention as a bagpipe and drums played. Firefighter Kyle W. Perkins’ flag-draped casket was hoisted onto a fire truck after funeral speakers lauded the fallen firefighter for service to the community and family and for his ultimate sacrifice. Chris Vidachovich, minister, Chandler Street Church of Christ, comforted the crowd [...]
A two-story house fire south of Robstown early Thursday displaced the family of a National Guardsman serving in Iraq. Terri Kimmel and six of her children escaped the 2:49 a.m. blaze without injuries, Annaville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mike Clack said. Kimmel’s seventh child was not home at the time of the fire, he said. [...]
An off-duty San Antonio firefighter is being credited with preventing a home from burning to the ground. Capt. Glen Hamilton broke the front door of a home in the 4100 block of Springview on the city’s southeast side after he spotted smoke coming from the residence, said Paul Vidal, a district chief with the San [...]
Investigators suspect a heater is to blame for a fire at the Fairway Green Townhomes in Southwest Houston. It started early Friday at the complex on Bellaire near Mary Bates. Firefighters say that when they arrived on the scene there were flames shooting from the roof. They believe the heating unit on the roof caught [...]
Rhoda Mae Kerr watched from afar: Contract negotiations between city officials and fire union representatives, then firefighters overwhelming rejecting a proposed agreement. Kerr, who takes over as Austin’s new fire chief Monday, said she was disappointed. ‘I think a lot of people put a lot of hard work into those efforts, on both sides,’ she [...]
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