By Courtney Zubowski at KHOU News, Houston See photos See raw footage here. Firefighters say they have contained a forest fire that erupted in Walker County between Madisonville and Huntsville Wednesday afternoon, charring more than 150 acres of land. They were monitoring the fire east of I-45 to make sure it didn’t flare back up. [...]
By Geoff Folsom in The Odessa American Online See photos here. Firefighters from 32 states continued working Monday to try to hold back what is now being called the largest wildfire in Texas history. “Just a variety of tactics,” Tyler Kuhn of the Payson (Ariz.) Hotshots crew said Wednesday evening as he worked along Highway [...]
By Matthew Waller in The San Angelo Standard-Times Utility poles, flames blossoming out of their bases, wires straining as they sagged downward, were among the most prominent victims of the Scott Ranch fire northwest of Mertzon. The fire has ravaged about 10,000 acres and is 40 percent contained, Shane Crimm with the Texas Forest Service [...]
From KFDX News, Wichita Falls A Wichita County man loses his trailer after an electrical problem sparks a fire this afternoon.According to Wichita County Sheriff David Duke, fire crews were called out to the 48-hundred block of River Road around 1:15. The owner of this home said he heard a loud pop, and not too [...]
From WFAA News, Dallas Fort Worth A family of five escaped a mobile home fire in Lewisville early Thursday morning. The fire broke out just before 2 a.m. in the 1200 block of West Cowan. One person inside awoke to the flames and roused the others from their sleep. Several victims escaped through a back [...]
By Chance Welch in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Four people were injured, one seriously, after a car crashed into a Forest Hill firetruck Wednesday morning at southeast Loop 820 and Forest Hill Drive, authorities said. A woman was taken to a hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries, and three firefighters were taken to a hospital with [...]
By Ben Briscoe at KFDA News, Amarillo A new video is probably as close as you’re likely to get to flames ripping across open country. A Hoover Fire Department Volunteer captured the cell phone footage during this weekend’s trip down state. More than twenty people from six panhandle departments went towards Bryson to help battle [...]
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