Dallas’ police and fire unions have agreed to take pay cuts and mandatory unpaid leave to help the city close a massive budget gap. The agreement reached late Tuesday was approved by 94.3 percent of the associations’ members, city officials said.
The deal will save City Hall about $22.4 million in the coming budget, a [...]
Update: Fallen fighter to be laid to rest this weekend
From KHOU News, Houston
A fallen firefighter will be laid to rest this weekend. Captain Thomas Araguz died while fighting a massive fire over the weekend at an egg farm near Boling in Wharton County. Two other firefighters suffered minor burns in the blaze.
Public visitation for Araguz [...]
ALPINE – Five people from West Texas are dead after a medical plane crashed early Sunday morning after taking off from the airport in Alpine. Brewster County Sheriff Ronnie Dodson tells NewsWest9 that his office got a call about a plane going down around 12:15 Sunday morning. www.newswest9.com
Dodson says the plane is a Cessna 421 [...]
By Bryan Shettig The Herald-Zeitung A retired policeman from Iowa Park, Texas, died in flooding that swept through New Braunfels Wednesday. In the early morning hours, an estimated 11 inches or rain turned the Guadalupe and Comal rivers into raging, destructive flood waters. Officials said the Guadalupe River crested at 29.65 feet. [...]
WASHINGTON D.C.–A landmark study issued today by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that the size of firefighting crews has a substantial effect on the fire service’s ability to protect lives and property in residential fires. Performed by a broad coalition in the scientific, firefighting and public-safety [...]
By Claudia Grisales : Austin Statesman Fire crews responded this morning to a fire at the home of a person who owned a plane that crashed into a Northwest Austin office building. The house, in the 1800 block of Dapplegrey Lane close to Parmer Lane and Metric Boulevard, was [...]
At approximately 14:25 hours on 2/4/10, Friendswood VFD was toned out to mutual aid Pearland with a pumper for a fully involved house fire on Highway 35, near Dixie Farm Rd. Friendswood Duty Officer 2199 and Engine 21 (day crew units) immediately responded. Pearland called for a defensive attack and upon arrival, Engine 21 went [...]
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