From the Archives of The Amarillo Globe-News
Photo from the Amarillo Public Library Photo Archives in The Amarillo Globe-News
Large structure fires, with their highly visible smoke and flames, seem to always attract a crowd of spectators. But 100 years ago, spectators often became firefighters who helped extinguish flames and rescue victims.
The Guleke residence at 509 Pierce [...]
By Heber Taylor in The Galveston County Daily News
Friday was the anniversary of the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history. The Texas City Disaster occurred on April 16, 1947. A French ship, the Grandcamp, was being loaded with ammonium nitrate. A fire broke out. The ship exploded.
As firefighters tried to get the fires under control, [...]
From KCEN News, Waco
Photo by Susan Weems, KCEN News Photo
Monday marks the 17th anniversary of one of the darkest moments in Central Texas history. In 1993, a huge fire ended a 51 -day standoff at the Branch Davidian Compound, near Waco.
The FBI launched an assault of tear-gas to end the standoff with the armed [...]
By T.J. Aulds in The Galveston County Daily News
On the fifth anniversary of Eva Rowe’s saddest day, there was plenty of joy as well.
On March 23, 2005, she lost her father and mother, James and Linda Rowe, to the explosions at BP’s Texas City refinery. Her settlement with BP in the deaths of her parents [...]
By Kevin Jones in The Jacksonville Daily Progress
March 18, 2010, marked the 73rd anniversary of the tragic New London School explosion that happened so close to home all those years ago, the memory of which is still etched in the minds of the few that survived and in the minds of the families of the [...]
By Katie McCall at KTRK News, Houston
They’re heroes who rush into buildings to save lives and in many cases, they give their own while protecting others. On Saturday, fallen firefighters were honored with the annual memorial ceremony.
The music, the bells, the helmets all represent firefighters who’ve died in the line of duty. They are the [...]
By Terri Jo Ryan Special to The Waco Tribune-Herald
Marguerite Ethel Webb Cooper was a 22-year-old student at Texas Christian University in Waco a century ago. She was in the middle of a play rehearsal with the drama club when a tragedy of a different sort unfolded before her very eyes. According to her 1977 oral [...]
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