An overnight apartment fire in Midland is being blamed on lightning. The fire happened around three Thursday morning at the Ranchland Apartments on east Wadley. According to fire officials, the lightning hit the corner of the roof.
Fire officials tell NewsWest 9, tenants were evacuated for a short time while fire fighters battled the blaze but [...]
Firefighters responded at 3:45 a.m. Friday to a fire at Candlewood Apartments in the 2000 block of Airline Road, a police dispatcher said.
American Red Cross was called to assist displaced residents, she said. But fire officials could not be reached to get more information regarding the number of residents displaced. Red Cross spokesman Aaron Guevara [...]
Firefighters were called out Thursday afternoon to a house fire in the 200 block of Montrose Street. The first engine on the scene reported seeing smoke coming from the single story home. Firefighters say one elderly woman was at home alone when the fire started; she made it out without injury. Her cats, however, [...]
An eight-alarm sage brush fire, fueled by extreme drought conditions, burned about 30 acres Thursday before firefighters gained control. Firefighters were called shortly after 2 p.m. to 21st Street in San Leon and found smoke billowing and flames spreading from a 20-acre blaze.
At least eight other agencies from as far away as Alvin assisted San [...]
Update: Evacuation of residents near chemical fire lifted
An evacuation order for the area near a chemical fire sparked at a plant on Texas 21 was lifted Friday morning. Brian Hilton, College Station emergency management coordinator, said about 200 people had been barred from returning home Friday morning since the fire started at about noon Thursday, [...]
A quick response by members of the Fredericksburg Volunteer Fire Department is being credited for playing a big part in saving a home on the city’s northwestern edge from total destruction from fire Monday afternoon.
Within six minutes after a neighbor telephoned the Fredericksburg Fire Station at 4 p.m., fire fighters were on the scene at [...]
Mother Nature is suspected to be behind an unexpected wake up call for some Midland apartment tenants Thursday morning. Around 3:00, lightning is believed to have struck the attic of the Ranchland Apartments in the 1200 block of Wadley.
After the damage left behind by storms this week and the threat of fires in apartment buildings, [...]
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