By Glenn Evans in The Longview News Journal Jurors in Longview found the maker of a ladder truck from which two firefighters fatally fell — and the Kilgore Fire Department — equally at fault for the 2009 training exercise deaths. Wrapping up an eight-day wrongful death suit, the panel reviewed the case brought by the [...]
By Glenn Evans in The Longview News-Journal Jurors in Longview will hear this morning that inadequate latches allowed two Kilgore firefighters in a whiplashing aerial bucket to break through its doors and fall to their deaths. Design engineer Kirk Rosenhan, who has served on national firefighter equipment standards panels, also will testify a far superior [...]
From KBTX News, Bryan College Station Texans will be armed with a new Internet tool this wildfire season that will help spot their wildfire risk and how to respond to it. The Texas Forest Service has scheduled a Friday morning public announcement on the south steps of the Capitol in Austin. Forest Service officials will [...]
By Michelle Casady in The San Antonio Express-News Firefighters were kept busy Friday, splitting resources between a massive fire that started about 4:30 p.m. at a North Side hotel and a large fire that broke out around three hours later in a North Side apartment complex. One man died Friday in the fire at the [...]
By Christie Post at KCBD in Lubbock A deadly fire claimed the lives of three people and one dog in southeast Lubbock Monday. Sheriff Kelly Rowe says the fire started around 11:40 p.m. on the 5900 block of HWY 84, one block from the Montford Prison Unit. Several hours later officials found four bodies inside [...]
by JONATHAN BETZ City leaders are raising new concerns about how to protect Grapevine’s historic district after a four-alarm fire gutted a building nearly a century old. “This is one of our greatest fears after so many years of restoring our historic district,” said Mayor William Tate. “We don’t want to lose any more.” The [...]
By Ramón Rentería in The El Paso Times See photos here. Once majestic cottonwood trees in Ginger McGough’s front yard now look as if someone scorched them with a gigantic blowtorch. The blackened trees, towering 40 to 50 feet high, remind McGough of the fast-moving 20-foot wall of fire that destroyed her childhood house and [...]
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