More than 100 people in flip-flops and swimsuits stood wrapped in towels in the parking lot Tuesday at Splash Amarillo water park after a two-alarm fire cut short an afternoon of fun. The fire erupted about 3:45 p.m. in a building that houses the park’s concession stand, lockers and some restrooms. It forced the mandatory [...]
There is nice perfume, strong perfume and then there’s perfume that’s powerful enough to empty a building and alarm emergency responders and the media. Fort Worth firefighters said that was the case Wednesday afternoon when they were summoned with ambulances to the Bank of America building, 5401 Beach St. in north Fort Worth. Thirty four [...]
In a 64-by12-foot space, nine firefighters attempt to share living, working and sleeping quarters. The bare kitchen area is similar to that of a dorm room and the living room barely has room for three reclining chairs and a television set. The portable building set up on Sabine Pass ISD property on S. Gulfway Drive [...]
A woman nine-months pregnant was able to save herself and her two young sons from flames engulfing a mobile home Wednesday, but was unable to save her cousin who died in the inferno, officials said. Erica Mancuso, 32, of Hitchcock died of smoke inhalation and extensive injuries, said John Florence, a spokesman for the Galveston [...]
There are new and explosive allegations from veteran female Houston firefighters, who say they’re being harassed on the job and their lives have been put on the line. They bypassed the fire department’s top brass and took their concerns right to City Hall. Back in March, someone hung a noose at Fire Station 41. Just [...]
More than 50 firefighters controlled a stubborn fire at an apartment complex Tuesday, but not until it had displaced 10 families. The fire started in one unit of the Mountain View Apartments and spread to nine others. Flames shot through the roof of the complex at 5891 Bandolero, and the relentless 101-degree weather made the [...]
Investigators still don’t know what caused two businesses to burn to the ground inside a huge warehouse strip mall in Forney Wednesday morning. It took firefighters six long hours to get the flames out at Philbeck’s Texas Pine Furniture on Highway 80 about 25 miles east of Dallas. The fire was reported just after 3 [...]
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