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2011: Texas Firefighter Deaths

Texas-fire.com reported the following line of duty deaths in 2011 Todd Krodle, Dallas Fire Rescue, died after being injured at a three-alarm apartment fire in Dallas. See story here. Chris Pham, Dallas Fire Rescue, died on duty at his station. See story here. David Goins, a Huntington volunteer, was killed at a 3-acre wildfire on [...]

Texas-Fire 2011: Top 5 most viewed posts

From Texas-fire.com The September story of catastrophic wildfires across Texas which led to the deaths of two people in Bastrop and a woman and child in Gladewater, forced mass evacuations, and burned hundreds of homes and thousands of acres of vegetation was the most viewed post at Texas-fire.com in 2011 seen 29,766 times. See story [...]

Fire Displaces Wichita Falls Family

By Jessica Holley at KFDX News, Wichita Falls The Red Cross was called out Thursday afternoon to help a family forced out of their home by an afternoon fire. The fire happened around 3 p.m. in the 31-hundred block of Grace Street off Jacksboro Highway. Fire investigators say the cause of the fire was an [...]

Two teens die in fiery Parker County wreck

By Domingo Ramirez Jr. in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram See photo here. Two Parker County teenagers were killed and two were seriously injured in a fiery crash early Thursday near Springtown. Joshua James Brown, 18, of Weatherford and Alex Christian, 14, of Aledo were killed when the Dodge pickup they were in veered off a [...]

Family of five escapes Longview house fire

From The Longview News-Journal A Longview family made it out of their home safely Thursday night after waking up to find the structure on fire. Two adults and three children were asleep just after 8 p.m. at the residence in the 1300 block of Young Street when they awoke and found smoke in the home. [...]

Officers save children from house fire

By Courtney Zavala at KPRC News, Houston Two Houston police officers saved children from a burning home in southeast Houston Thursday. Around 11:30 p.m. the officers said they were passing by McGowen Street and Sampson Street in a patrol unit when they saw smoke and fire coming from a home. One of the officers said [...]

Smoke detector wakes up resident in Mustang Ridge

By Kate Weidaw at KXAN News, Austin At 3 a.m. Friday a Mustang Ridge homeowner heard his smoke detector going off and awoke to find his bedroom full of smoke. He quickly climbed out a bedroom window and called 911. When firefighters arrived to 12061 Von Quintus Road they saw heavy smoke coming out of [...]