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Fire Damages Midland Apartment Building

From KWES News, Midland Odessa A Midland apartment building suffered damage to its attic after a fire broke out Saturday morning. The fire started around 7:30 at an apartment building in the 2900 block of West Illinois. The fire was started by a heating unit catching insulation on fire. The fire was contained to the [...]

Midland FD puts out hot-oil truck blaze

From The Midland Reporter-News The Midland Fire Department responded to a hot-oil truck fire at the intersection of Highway 349 and FM 1788 at 12:12 p.m. Sunday. The driver, whose name has not been released, was not injured, according to Tasa Watts, the city’s public information officer. It took firefighters approximately four hours to extinguish [...]

Grass Fire Spreads, Burns Trailer and Equipment

From The San Angelo Standard Times</a> A two-acre grass fire forced emergency personnel to close North Bryant Boulevard at 4 p.m. Sunday to allow a fire hose to be pulled across the busy four-lane arterial road. The fire, which started on a storage property while a forklift was working there, consumed a travel trailer and [...]

Two families displaced after fire breaks out in West El Paso apartment fire

By Adriana M. Chávez in The El Paso Times Two families were displaced after a fire broke out at a Westside apartment complex Monday morning. No one was hurt and officials are still looking for the cause of fire at the apartment complex at 5353 Ridge, El Paso Fire Department inspector, John Concha. One chihuahua [...]

Grapevine’s 911 service restored

By Jay Board in The Grapevine Courier Grapevine’s emergency phone service was restored Saturday night after an outage lasting more than 32 hours. The city’s 911 system went dead at about 1:10 p.m. Friday after construction crews accidentally damaged a telephone cable, said Lt. Todd Dearing, a Grapevine police spokesman. Phone service at the police [...]

Chief Says Exhaust Fan Caused Raymondville Nursing Home Fire

By Camaron Abundes at KRGV News, Brownsville McAllen The fire chief tells us the fire at a Raymondville nursing home started inside an exhaust fan in a bathroom at the nursing home. Everyone inside made it out safely around 8 Sunday night. Family members rushed over to find their loved ones in the parking lot [...]