By Chris Roark in The Flower Mound Leader</a> John Glover has been named the new fire chief for Highland Village, taking over for Lonnie Tatum, who will retire June 30. The Highland Village City Council approved a resolution to make the appointment. Glover comes to Highland Village from Coppell. He will begin work Monday. The [...]
By Mason W. Canales in The Killeen Daily Herald A dispute over the county’s involvement in fire protection delayed an interlocal agreement about sharing future repair costs for a joint-use fire station. The county will pay 30 percent of the building’s construction, not to exceed $450,000, according to the agreement. The $1.2 million facility will [...]
VFDs learned from Wildcat but don’t want a repeat From The San Angelo Standard Times The Concho Valley’s volunteer firefighters knew how to handle a water hose long before last year’s historic wildfires. As they came out of the embers, however, they realized they had stories with staying power, and thanks to an outpouring of [...]
By Dan Eakin in The McKinney Courier-Gazette Twelve firefighters who were promoted within the past few months were introduced to the McKinney City Council Tuesday night by McKinney Fire Chief Danny Kistner. Kistner, who was named fire chief last July upon the retirement of longtime Fire Chief Mark Wallace, said, “With a goal of providing [...]
By Art Lawler in The Athens Review See photos here. One of the most familiar local icons of the last quarter century in Athens is retiring from the Athens Fire Department to take a position with an energy company in East Texas. Assistant Fire Chief Tres Winn, 50, will be going to work next month [...]
By Casey Norton at WFAA News, Dallas Fort Worth See photos here. Possum Kingdom Lake is in the middle of a building boom, one year after a massive wildfire scorched 125,000 acres and destroyed 126 homes. In the ranching and lakefront homes of Sportsman’s World along Hell’s Gate Drive, 56 homes were reduced to ash-covered [...]
By Heber Taylor in The Galveston County Daily News Monday was the 65th anniversary of the Texas City Disaster, the largest industrial disaster in the nation’s history. Texas City residents marked the anniversary with a memorial for those who died April 16, 1947. The history of that tragic day has been told many times. A [...]
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