Dallas’ police and fire unions have agreed to take pay cuts and mandatory unpaid leave to help the city close a massive budget gap. The agreement reached late Tuesday was approved by 94.3 percent of the associations’ members, city officials said.
The deal will save City Hall about $22.4 million in the coming budget, a [...]
By Lisa Chavarria at KHOU News, Houston
Six firefighters were hospitalized Monday evening battling a four-alarm fire that erupted at the historic downtown Houston JP Morgan Chase Bank building, according to HFD.
The landmark skyscraper is located on the corner of Rusk and Main.
More than 100 firefighters battled the blaze that broke out on the 27th floor [...]
From KHOU News, Houston
Raw footage from KHOU in Houston
A three-alarm fire swept through a northeast Houston warehouse early Friday wiping out more than 10,000 pieces of voting equipment. City officials said they are unsure what will be done when voting begins in the next few months.
The Harris County Election Technology Center, located on Canino [...]
By James Pinkerton in The Houston Chronicle
In his introductory news conference, Terry Garrison said his top priorities are firefighter safety and promoting cultural diversity through recruiting and training. Terry Garrison, a tall man with an almost constant grin, is an experienced and well-educated administrator whose management style draws on openness and inclusiveness, say fire and [...]
By Lisa Chavarria at KHOU News, Houston
A three-alarm fire swept through parts of a southwest Houston strip mall destroying several businesses in its path early Wednesday. Houston Fire Department officials said the fire began inside the M. Trading Wholesale Shop on Fondren at Harwin just before 5 a.m. The business houses wholesale supplies sold to [...]
From The Killeen Daily Herald
Temple firefighters discovered a man dead in his home Monday while fighting a fire in the 800 block of East Ave E. Justice of the Peace Don Engleking pronounced Fred Holiday, 80, of Temple dead Monday and ordered an autopsy to be preformed on the body, stated a Temple Fire Department [...]
By Jessica Langdon in The Wichita Falls Times Record News
Cody Lange heard a loud noise, a “big old boom,” late Monday morning, went outside and soon saw smoke and flames rising from a nearby house. The fire that erupted in the 1600 block of 23rd Street a short time before noon sent a man to [...]
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