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Firefighters battling North Side apartment fire

From WOAI News, San Antonio
Firefighters are battling a fire at a North Side apartment complex. The fire broke out around 3:45 p.m. at the Churchill Park Apartment Homes at 1200 Patricia Drive.
News 4 WOAI will provide updates as additional details becomes available.

City approves contract to build green firehouse

By Josh Baugh in The San Antonio Express-News
The City Council on Thursday approved a $3.4 million contract for a local construction company to build the city’s first environmentally friendly fire station. Located in District 8 near the Interstate 10 corridor, Fire Station 51 originally was supposed to open in about a month. But the [...]

Firefighters knock down flames at northeast-side cement plant tower fire

From KENS News, San Antonio
A fire broke out in a tower at a cement factory on San Antonio’s northeast side Friday morning. The Capitol Cement plant is in the 11500 block of Nadogdoches Road near Wurzbach Parkway.
The fire was inside a tower referred to as a coal vat. Responding firefighters initially flushed the tower with [...]

SAFD proposal aims to relax eligibility rules for recruits

By Michelle Mondo in The San Antonio Express-News
The San Antonio Fire Department is set to present a final draft of proposed rule changes to the city’s civil service commission today, including a loosening of eligibility restrictions that could affect firefighter applicants who have already signed up to take the entrance exam later this month.
The possible [...]

Fallen 9/11 first-responders are remembered in Oak Cliff ceremony

By Roy Appleton in The Dallas Morning News as reported at Texas Cable News
Dallas firefighters have given this year’s Oak Cliff remembrance of 9/11 a solemn start. Anyone who wants to join in can do so beginning Friday.Members of Dallas Fire-Rescue’s 6th Battalion came Wednesday to the Bank Tower at Oak Cliff, where they read [...]

Midland Fire Crews Battle Multiple Grassfires

By Eddie Garcia at KOSA News, Midland Odessa
Midland Emergency Management tell CBS 7 that most of the fires are happening in the the county near Hwy 158 and I-20. At this point crews continue to try to get a handle on all the blazes happening in the county.
The Midland Fire Department has responded to a [...]

Authorities Investigating After Grassfire Sparks Up in Midland County

From KWES News, Midland
Midland County firefighters were busy Wednesday afternoon keeping a two mile grassfire along interstate 20 under control. Crews got the call after lunch on the southside of the Interstate near mile marker 145, east of Midland.
The flames burned up grass and discarded railroad ties but no homes or buildings were in any [...]