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By Steven Alford in The Corpus Christi Caller-Times It’s not just kids who have firetrucks on their Christmas wish list. A Rio Grande Valley volunteer fire department did, too. Their wish came true Friday night in Flour Bluff. The Linn-San Manuel Volunteer Fire Department lost its fire station and only firetruck about two weeks ago [...]
By Ryan Robertson at KFDX News, Wichita Falls Councilors approved a six year capital lease purchase to fund the new equipment. The lease totals $1.5 million. Officials with the Fire Department said they plan to purchase two new fire engines, two 4-wheel-drive mini pumper brush trucks, and finish building a small rapid response brush truck. [...]
Written on December 21, 2011 | Posted in
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By Jocelyn Tovar, KTXS News in Abilene See photos here. Another Abilene fire engine has been damaged in a wreck. Engine 4 was hit by an 18-wheeler traveling west on Interstate 20 on Monday as firefighters were stopped while responding at mile marker 286. “We were responding to single vehicle accident on I-20,” said Abilene [...]
Written on December 20, 2011 | Posted in
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From WFAA News, Dallas Fort Worth See photos here. A man is under arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence after an overnight wreck on Stemmons Freeway. Police said around 2 a.m., the man drove his pick-up into a fire engine that was stopped to check out an accident near Royal Lane. The fire [...]
Written on December 7, 2011 | Posted in
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By Matthew Girard in The Belton Journal Because of the growing concern for the chance of a wildfire in the Morgan’s Point Resort area, the city council approved the purchase of a new fire booster truck for the MPR Volunteer Fire Department. “I know this is not a budgeted item, but due to drought and [...]
Written on November 30, 2011 | Posted in
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From The Microplex News Edwards Funeral Homes of Eastland, Ranger & Strawn and the Lucas Ranch on Necessity Highway, have donated a fire truck to the Wayland Volunteer Fire Department. The International pump truck was used by the Brock Fire Department from 1965 until 2005 and will pump 500 gallons of water a minute. It [...]
Written on November 25, 2011 | Posted in
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Story & Photos by James Cannon Midland Fire Department crews are adding the last of the equipment and expect the fleet’s newest edition to be fully operational next week. The ambulance sits on a Ford F450 chassis, an entire class larger than previous models, which allows it have a much larger medical unit. The ambulance [...]
Written on October 7, 2011 | Posted in
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