By Mike Baird in The Corpus Christi Caller-Times
About 15 Annaville volunteer firefighters battled a house fire that started at 11:11 p.m. Monday in the 3700 block of Barber Lane, officials said. Residents got out of the one-story wood frame home before three engines, one utility truck and medics arrived, said Chief Michael Clack.
Flames were hidden [...]
Southside home also hit; nobody hurt
Lightning sparked explosions Wednesday at two petroleum storage tanks and started a house fire as thunderstorms dumped dime-sized hail in Robstown and nearly a half-inch of rain in Corpus Christi.
Annaville firefighters were called to Clarkwood Road and County Road 32 about 1:45 p.m. after lightning hit one of five tanks [...]
A helicopter, bulldozers and volunteer firefighters battled a brush fire Wednesday between Robstown and Corpus Christi that burned about 15 to 20 acres. Annaville Deputy Fire Chief Mark Lubianski said the fire started at 3:40 p.m. near County Road 44 and Farm-to-Market Road 24. Fire officials are investigating the cause.
“The brush was too thick [...]
A fire broke out around 6 p.m. Monday evening in an area bordered by Old Brownsville Road and Saratoga Blvd. Firefighters were still out there around 8 p.m. putting out hot spots. Also, at times, firefighters ran out of water while fighting the flames.
The area is rural and there are no fire hydrants nearby, [...]
Smoke could be seen for miles Monday afternoon during a brush fire on the King Ranch that took abut six hours to control. Butch Thompson, natural resources manager for the ranch, said officials don’t know what caused the fire, which started off the ranch’s Laureles Division’s shoreline along the Laguna Madre. Thompson said estimates of [...]
More than 30 firefighters from Corpus Christi and Annaville departments on Monday battled a three-acre fire, likely sparked by a passing train, that burned about 200 railroad ties. Fire officials said they were called to the 5600 block of Up River Road about 4:10 p.m. and found piles of about 200 railroad ties on fire [...]
A Robstown family of four was left homeless when the house they were renting was engulfed by flames Wednesday in what the Red Cross described as the busiest year for fires in more than a decade. Robstown firefighters were called to the home, in the 2500 block of U.S. Highway 77, about 2:30 p.m. and [...]
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