A Bell County firefighter suffered leg injuries Friday while battling a fire that engulfed a two-story house near the Belton Lake Dam that produced a cloud of smoke that was visible for at least five miles. The firefighter, whose name was not released, said the injured firefighter was taken to Scott & White Hospital in [...]
Combining music with Bryan Fire Lt. Todd Mack’s Irish and Scottish roots came naturally. Firefighting already was in his blood: His uncles and cousins wore the badge and his grandmother served as a firefighter in Round Rock during World War II when the men went off to war. It’s been two decades since he signed [...]
Residents in the Silver Lakes Ranch subdivision at Lake Amon Carter can rest a bit easier knowing three fire trucks can respond immediately from within their community, rolling out of their new fire station. At the corner of Silver Lakes Drive and Whispering Oaks, a dark red planked building houses the recently organized fire unit, [...]
Shawn Harris will serve his first day as a Lubbock firefighter on the opening morning of the city’s newest fire station. He will begin his duty at 6 a.m. today at 3241 63rd St., helping give emergency fire and medical coverage to an area of the city that has had slower response times. “We had [...]
Community camaraderie was on display this weekend at the fourth annual Brookshires’ Regional Firefighter’s Combat Challenge Competition as East Texas firefighters competed against their counterparts from across the nation. While the firefighters battled, some of the crowd walked to the Carter BloodCare mobile lab and donated blood, both local hospitals were represented and several other [...]
A teenager was rescued from a manhole after a passerby heard his calls for help. That was near Rexford and Jones-Maltsberger near North Star Mall. San Antonio firefighters tell News 4 WOAI that three teens took the cover off the manhole, then they went down into the storm-drainage ditch. Two of them came back up [...]
Recruitment of women at the Houston Fire Department has plummeted dramatically over the past decade, with only seven new female trainees added to the firefighting force in the past five years, a Houston Chronicle analysis of city payroll records shows. The failure of one of the largest cities in the United States to attract more [...]
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