By Domingo Ramirez, Jr. in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram The challenge for Hayden was to find Dallas fire Capt. Laurel Pitman in a pile of concrete blocks as smoke filled the air and strong winds blew. When his handler let him go, the 2-year-old Labrador-Chesapeake Bay retriever made just one circle around the debris. It [...]
By Donna McCollum at KTRE News, Lufkin Nacogdoches Jan Amen spends a lot of time driving back roads helping people become Texas Firewise. “Anytime we do an assessment for a community wildfire protection plan we have to go out and physically drive up and down each and every road of each subdivision,” said Jan Amen, [...]
By Bryan Shettig in The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung Firefighters responded to an apartment fire Tuesday afternoon that was apparently caused by a discarded cigarette that burned in a space under the floor of a second story apartment. No one was injured in the fire, said New Braunfels Fire Department Fire Marshal Patrick O’Connell, which happened [...]
By Barry Halvorson in The Wharton Journal-Spectator With no hydrants in the response area, the Wharton Volunteer Fire Department called in mutual aid from the Hungerford VFD but the combined efforts were only able to stop the fire that destroyed an area manufactured home from spreading to the surrounding area Sunday evening. Wharton Assistant Fire [...]
By Chris Paschenko in The Galveston County Daily News Barking dogs alerted an island man Tuesday to multiple Molotov cocktails hurled at his home, which sustained minor fire damage, fire officials said. No injuries were reported, but fire investigators are asking for tips to help solve their arson investigation. The resident, identified by Galveston police [...]
By Howard Roden in The Courier of Montgomery County The recent creation of the Caney Creek Volunteer Fire Department ultimately will provide insurance savings for homeowners, said the department’s new chief. After 25 years of operating as separate entities, firefighters from Grangerland and Bennette Estates voted March 22 to merge under the new banner of [...]
By Vanesa Brashier in The Cleveland Advocate Cleveland City Council, at the Tuesday, March 23, meeting, heard two proposals regarding the city’s emergency medical service. Currently, the city is covered by City of Cleveland EMS, but budget shortfalls in that department, estimated to be between $300,000 to $400,000 per year, have led city leaders to [...]
XHTML | 
CSS | Log in - Suvi Magazine by Gabfire Themes