For the second time in a little over a week, Tarkington firefighters found themselves responding to multiple calls in a twenty-four hour period. The first call came in shortly after 2 PM on Friday afternoon, dispatching both Cleveland and Tarkington fire departments to a house fire on CR3141. The home was fully involved when the [...]
Three firefighters with the Texas Forest Service were injured Monday and Tuesday battling wildfires that starting to intensify as the Houston-area copes with a hotter and dryer summer than usual. The firefighters were hurt battling a 200-acre inferno near Huntsville in Walker County. Two suffered from heat exhaustion and one suffered minor burns before he [...]
Wood pallets at a local company caught fire just north of Hewitt on Tuesday evening, keeping fire crews from Hewitt, Waco and Woodway busy for at least two hours. The Hewitt Fire Department was the first to respond to the fire at Red Express Pallet Co., 7314 Bagby Ave., shortly before 6 p.m., said Hewitt [...]
Citizens, private industry, and the Fort Worth Police and Fire Departments along with the City of Fort Worth have really stepped up to create a Line of Duty Death Memorial for their City’s fallen servants. Called the Fort Worth Police and Firefighters Memorial, it is the culmination of 20 years of hard work, over 1.2 [...]
Firefighters with the City of Robstown’s Fire Department have formed a union and as the first order of business, they are looking to obtain more manpower for what they claim are currently undermanned shifts. Allen Wilkinson, a 12-year veteran of the department and president of the Robstown Professional Fire Fighters Association, said the union was [...]
There were no injuries reported in a late afternoon fire on Thursday, June 18, 2009. Lumberton firefighters and rescue crews rushed to put out the flames. The blaze erupted at a home on Pine Burr near Hooks road. Not only were rescue crews fighting the flames, they were also dealing with the Southeast Texas heat. [...]
Three people were killed Thursday morning in a house explosion in the Flour Bluff area that authorities believe was accidental. The three bodies found in the rubble had not been identified late Thursday, but police said the three people who lived in the house in the 900 block of Greenbay Drive were the only people [...]
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