Firefighters, El Paso make tentative deal

By Marty Schladen in The El Paso Times
Unionized firefighters have reached a tentative contract agreement with the city government. The city would extend by a year the firefighters’ contract, which was to expire in 11 days.
Under the proposal, firefighters would get no cost-of-living raise, said Joe Tellez, president of the union. But firefighters with less [...]

Fewer firefighters will respond to calls

By Maggie Ybarra in The El Paso Times
Fewer firetrucks and firefighters will be dispatched to emergency calls after the Fire Department changes the way it responds to calls, officials said. Fire Chief Otto Drozd said he plans to institute a new call system, named Priority Dispatch, in six months. The system, which cost about $500,000, [...]

Negotiations with El Paso public-safety workers continue

By Marty Schladen in The El Paso Times
Unions representing police and firefighters are negotiating with the city in advance of a July 26 budget hearing. In the hearing, the City Council will take up budgets for the public-safety agencies, which make up 60 percent of general-fund spending. The city is asking the unions for concessions [...]

LODD: 5 Killed in West Texas Air Ambulance Crash

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 [...]

65 firefighters from 20 units battle blaze; 1 FF treated

By Caylor Ballinger in The El Paso Times

Brush fire burns 1,000 acres on Doña Ana training range

Update: Fire on Fort Bliss Doña Ana Range grows five times its size
By Maggie Ybarra in The El Paso Times
A bush fire on the Fort Bliss Doña Ana Range has burned about 5,000 acres. It is east of Las Cruces and five times the size of what it was on Monday, when Fort Bliss officials [...]

Man, Stepdaughter Killed in East El Paso Blaze

KFOX News, El Paso
Early findings indicate a deadly blaze in an El Paso apartment was accidental. El Paso fire investigators were investigating the cause of a fire on El Paso’s Eastside Thursday morning in which two people died and two others went to a local hospital. A 6-year-old girl and her 28-year-old stepfather, identified by [...]