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Africanized bee attack Saturday prompts road closure, hospitalization

From The Midland Reporter-Telegram Several residents and a family dog in an east Midland neighborhood were treated for bee stings and one person was taken to the hospital after a swarm of Africanized bees attacked them Saturday afternoon. Authorities said they were called out to the 900 block of North Dallas Street around 4:30 p.m. [...]

Fire guts 3 homes, damages 3 others

By Diana Washington Valdez in The El Paso Times Fire marshals’ investigators said a fire that was intentionally set Sunday destroyed three houses under construction in far east El Paso County. Fire Lt. Mario Hernandez said the fire in the 12000 block of Hidden Grove caused more than $600,000 in damage. A total of 14 [...]

Hale Center supporters keep EMS alive

By Alyssa Dizon in The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal A small community has managed to save its emergency medical services, which have been shut down three times over the past few years, and update its decade-old equipment. The Hale Center EMS will unveil its new ambulance today at the Hale Center EMS building, 116 W. Sixth St., [...]

Gas leak seen as cause of fire

By Joe Gamm in The Amarillo Globe-News Fire damaged a garage and destroyed a shed at a south Amarillo home Sunday evening before a passerby was able to call 911. Nick McDonald said he was driving in the 1900 block of South Crockett Street toward Interstate 40 when he saw smoke and flames coming from [...]

One person missing after Sunday fire in NW Houston

From KTRK News, Houston Firefighters are still searching the wreckage of a house fire in northwest Houston for what may be a missing person. Around 2:30am Sunday morning, firefighters found lots of flames coming from the roof and they rushed inside. They rescued four people out of the burning home on Bethel near Nina Lee. [...]

Mother rescues 6-year-old son in Seabrook house fire

By Mary Ann Hellinghausen in The Bay Area Citizen A Seabrook man is calling his wife a hero after she rescued their 6-year-old son by pulling him through a back bedroom window during a blaze that destroyed a Seabrook house Tuesday night. “She’s my hero,’’ said her husband, William McCucheon, as the family stood outside [...]

Houston house ‘total loss’ after Sunday morning fire

From KHOU News, Houston Authorities say a woman’s house is a total loss after a fire broke out Sunday morning in south Houston. The fire happened just after 8 a.m. on Martindale and Almeda-Genoa, authorities said. According to HFD, firefighters arrived at the scene to find heavy flames coming from a one-story house.HFD said it [...]