By Rod Rice at KUHF Radio, Houston Photo from the Houston Firefighter Camp brochure. Nationally just under 5% of fire fighters are women, but they make up only 2.7% of the Houston Fire Department. As Rod Rice reports — a couple years ago, a group of HFD women decided to be proactive in letting young [...]
By Laura Kellerman at BigCountry.com The Cisco Fire Chief was speechless today when when a brand new Ford Expedition SUV arrived at the department as a donation from Frac Tech Services and Cisco High-Lift. “This is definitely going to be an awesome addition to our fire fleet,” Chief Walter Fairbanks said. “This vehicle will give [...]
By Michael Slother at KCBD News, Lubbock As investigators try to figure out what caused Sunday’s fatal plane crash in Dickens county, Jake Jenkins’ friends and co-workers spent the day trying to cope. Jenkins was a Lubbock firefighter, and his friends say it was a privilege to work with him. Firefighters work and live together [...]
By Rich Flowers in The Athens Review Firefighters battled a blaze in the Baxter area, east of Athens Saturday, but couldn’t save the home of a Henderson County Sheriff’s Department deputy. HCSO received the 9-1-1 call at about 9:40 a.m., reporting the blaze in the one-story wooden structure on County Road 4704. The residents, Robert [...]
By Jessica Cooley in The Lufkin Daily News The Lufkin Fire Department is hosting its second annual Citizen’s Fire Academy. Beginning April 4 at 5:30 p.m., the academy will meet weekly on Mondays and is open to the public for sign up this year. Over the course of 10 weeks, attendees will learn about the [...]
By Justin White at KWTX News, Waco An unattended candle sparked a Tuesday morning house fire at a home near Moody but firefighters were able to quickly douse the blaze. The living room of the home on Dowell Rd., near Elm Creek Rd., was gutted but the rest of the structure suffered severe heat and [...]
From KEYE News, Austin A fire was quickly extinguished at a Round Rock high school Monday afternoon before it could spread. According to the Interim Round Rock Fire Chief Billy Wusterhausen, at around 2 p.m. fire units responded to a structure fire at Stony Point High School. When they arrived they found the fire in [...]
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