By SUSAN SCHROCK
sschrock@star-telegram.com
Arlington Fire Chief Robin Paulsgrove will retire in May after 13 years as the city’s top firefighter and director of emergency management.
Paulsgrove, who was appointed chief in 1997, helped guided management and planning of homeland security to address threats in the city’s growing entertainment district, including developing a public safety plan for the [...]
By Chris Vaughn in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Mamie McKnight celebrated her 65th birthday Wednesday with a catfish dinner. Her son gives all the credit for that life landmark to two young sailors, who one morning last March saw flames from their recruiting station on North Collins Street in Arlington, ran toward the fire and pulled [...]
From WFAA News, Dallas
Two people were seriously injured just before 7 o’clock Tuesday night in a three-alarm fire at the Cedar Bend apartments in Arlington. The fire was contained to the second floor of a building at the complex in the 2500 block of Ridge Oak Lane, and was quickly controlled by firefighters. The cause [...]
By Mitch Mitchell in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
A fire blamed on a heating unit malfunction displaced four families in an apartment complex on Tuesday. Red Cross workers assisted 11 people with shelter and clothing, according to Thomas Griffith, Pantego fire chief. No one was injured.
The fire started about 2:30 p.m. in a downstairs unit at [...]
By Bill Miller in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
About a dozen residents were evacuated from a three-alarm fire at a west Arlington apartment complex early Tuesday morning. No one was injured in the blaze that destroyed two units at the Sleepy Hollow Apartments in the 3800 block of Ichadbod Circle, said Morkita Anthony, an arson investigator.
The [...]
Firefighters rescued two maintenance workers from the roof of Cowboys Stadium on Thursday morning after they slipped on the icy surface and slid until they were caught by a gutter. The men, working for the roofing subcontractor Birdair, were not wearing safety gear when they stepped out of a hatch onto the roof just after [...]
Two workers fell on the Dallas Cowboys Stadium roof while doing maintenance about 7 a.m. Thursday. The men fell and slid as much as 70 feet from the roof’s peak onto a lip around its edge, said Don Crowson, an assistant fire chief in Arlington. Icy conditions atop the dome may have been a [...]
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