A 29-year-old Waco man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for intentionally setting a fire that destroyed the historic Sanger Avenue Elementary School.
Kevin David Allen pleaded guilty to first-degree felony arson and was sentenced to prison in a plea bargain with McLennan County prosecutors that calls for a 20-year prison term. He faced [...]
Firefighters had to battle huge flames in west Houston early Saturday morning.
This fire started just before 4:30am at a home on Mountain Rose near S. Wood Hollow. Firefighters arrived to find the one story home engulfed in flames and the roof already caving in. A neighbor says he was asleep but the smoke and flames [...]
To try to avoid heat exhaustion Wichita Falls firefighters say they start drinking extra fluids early, and keep drinking them all day so when that fire call comes they are hydrated.
And in the summer they call out extra firefighters than in cooler months so they can rotate manpower on the scene.
For firefighters across Texoma there [...]
Houston arson investigators are trying to figure out what caused a fire at a southeast Houston apartment complex, KPRC Local 2 reported.
The fire started at an apartment complex on the Gulf Freeway near Griggs Road just after 1 a.m. Monday.
The three people who live in the unit were rushed to Memorial Hermann hospital with burns [...]
A large fire erupted on the north side of San Antonio Monday afternoon after construction workers punctured a gas line at the intersection of Northwest Military Highway and Huebner, fire officials said. The resulting fire could be seen from miles away. Click Here for Video
A worker was thrown from his construction machine by [...]
First A Little Background
The Fraternal Order of Leatherheads is a great organization. As best I can tell, they do a lot of good things for a lot of people. Just not me.
Several years ago, one of the fine readers of this site (the original reader in fact – after my mom [...]
A fire can be devastating any time, but one in Vernon Thursday demonstrated the added misery North Texas summertime heat can deliver.
The fire, at 1404 Yucca Lane, broke out shortly before 3 a.m. and destroyed the home and belongings of one family. The heat of the blaze, combined with the residual heat of a 100-degree [...]
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