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Upshur County Fighting Several Blazes

From The Tyler Morning Telegraph Upshur County firefighters were battling several blazes in the area Tuesday night, including a structure fire on U.S. Highway 271 North, near the Midway Armadillo Truckstop, according to the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office. An employee at the truck stop near Gilmer said the structure fire is her home. Paige Stokes [...]

Edinburg House Fire; 2 firefighters suffer minor injuries

From KRGV News, Brownsville McAllen Edinburg Investigators are trying to figure out what led to an overnight house fire in Edinburg. The fire started around midnight Wednesday morning at a house in the 5200 block of Gardenia. Edinburg Fire Chief Shawn Snider tells us the house was fully engulfed when crews arrived. He says the [...]

Mulch yard fire near Tamina burns through weekend

By Jennifer Bell in The Courier of Montgomery County A fire that started in a Tamina-area mulch yard on Saturday flared up again Sunday but is now contained, Needham Fire and Rescue officials said. At 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Needham Fire and Rescue responded to a tree or nursery stock fire call in the 9400 block [...]

Family escapes burning Galveston house; firefighter injured

By Chris Paschenko in The Galveston County Daily News See photo here. A woman quickly ushered her parents, including her ill father, from a second-story bedroom before a raging attic fire severely damaged her waterfront home. Karen Brown, while surrounded by dozens of friends and family in her front yard Tuesday night, described how she [...]

Fire burns one-story house in Wimberley

From KXAN News, Austin The Wimberley Fire Department was battling a fire Wednesday morning that engulfed a single-story home. A 911 call was made by a neighbor who saw the flames at 480 Green Acres Drive around 4:20 a.m. All of the occupants of the home were safely evacuated and firefighters have contained the blaze [...]

More Suspicious Fires Near Bedias

By John Gilbert at KBTX News, Bryan College Station Two more suspicious fires in an area between Bedias and Madisonville on top of two other strange fires last week have investigators trying to figure out if these fires are being set on purpose. Before these latest fires, some residents in that area were already on [...]

Retired Austin firefighter killed in helicopter crash

By Patrick George in The Austin American-Statesman Update:The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in the Garfield area southeast of Austin earlier today was 60-year-old Steve Titsworth, a retired Austin firefighter, said Don Arsenault, the helicopter’s owner. Arsenault said Titsworth was one of his students and had been flying helicopters for four years. “I can [...]