When a pending collision between two sales-tax referendums on the Nov. 3 ballot threatened to doom both, Hays County’s Emergency Service District 6 officials yielded.
District 6 officials on Oct. 14 canceled a referendum aimed at collecting sales tax money to employ more firefighters because of a competing referendum in Driftwood called by Salt [...]
From his bunk in the Salvation Army homeless shelter, Greg LaRue can hear the wailing sirens of fire trucks as they roar down East Lancaster Drive.
For most homeless people, it is background noise. Another fire. Another person sick. Another person injured.
But to LaRue, the sound is a stabbing reminder of the life he had, the [...]
Flames were shooting into the air as firefighters arrived on the scene of a house fire around 8:00 Wednesday.
The family had just left to take the children to school when the fire was first reported around 7:44 a.m.
Firefighters say the small, wood frame house in the 1400 block of W. 10th Street suffered heavy [...]
A 58-year-old woman died in a fire Tuesday night after a good Samaritan attempted to rescue her from her apartment, according to Dallas Fire-Rescue.
A fire was reported just before 9 p.m. in the 7700 block of West Greenway Boulevard just east of Inwood Road near Dallas Love Field. A good Samaritan who saw [...]
Volunteer firefighters try their hardest to respond to emergencies, but always can’t when they’re at work on their regular jobs. There’s a move now by some departments to hire paid staff. One East Texas community reached that goal, beginning Monday.
Firefighter Kelcey Trotty stepped right into his paying job at the Appleby Volunteer Fire Department. “I’ve [...]
A two-alarm fire destroyed a home on the city’s Northwest Side early Monday. Carmen Villegas said that she and her family had stayed up late playing cards and had been in bed for only about 45 minutes when her husband woke her up at 2:30 a.m. and told everyone to get out of the [...]
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