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Grass fire contained after 12 hours
By Jennifer Rios in The San Angelo Standard Times
Volunteer fire departments, ranchers and the Texas Forest Service contained a grass fire south of San Angelo that lasted nearly 12 hours Monday, Tom Green County Sheriff officials reported Tuesday morning.
No was injured in the blaze that started on the XQZ Ranch, south of San Angelo, said [...]
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Electrical cord caused East Side house fire, officials say
By Maggie Ybarra in The El Paso Times
Firefighters extinguished a house fire in East El Paso Sunday night. The fire started about 11:30 p.m. in the 11800 block of Snowhawk Drive, fire officials said. The family who lived there was not home when the fire started. Nobody was injured, officials said.
Fire investigators determined an overheated [...]
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Texoma Firefighters Battle Labor Day Blazes
By Katie Crosbie at KFDX News, Texoma
For Texoma firefighters, today was like any other day in Texoma in the summer … a day to labor fighting wild fires … volunteers from several departments spent most of the day battling a blaze just south of Mankins.
After hours of hard work and lots of cooperation between fire [...]
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Historical Fires: Car Honors Officers Killed in Fire 42 Years Ago
By Matt Ledesma in The Wichita Falls Times Record News
See photos of car here.
The 1968 Ford Custom Jeff and Julie Coley purchased last July isn’t all that complex. There are few modern components either inside or outside. Yet out of such a simple car unfolds a very detailed story about the day the lives [...]
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Three fires destroy more than 300 acres on the High Plains
From KFDA News, Amarillo
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Fireworks started a North Amarillo range fire this weekend and today two other fires are still under investigation after burning hundreds of acres on the High Plains. On the heels of those fires, Potter County Fire Rescue has a warning for you this evening. A fire danger [...]
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Volunteers chip in when budgets slashed
By Yann Ranaivo in The Amarillo Globe-News
Unlike many of his counterparts, Brandon Colpetzer doesn’t spend his working hours at the fire station waiting to be sent out on a call. Colpetzer, one of Potter County Fire and Rescue’s volunteer firefighters, works full-time as a diesel mechanic for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. When a fire [...]
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Lufkin City Council to discuss fire station design plan during meeting tonight
By Larissa Graham in The Lufkin Daily News
Lufkin City Council members will discuss a proposed contract for the design of the new Fire Station No. 3 today. The new station will combine personnel and equipment from the previous No. 3 station and the Central Fire Station and will be located on Lufkin Avenue, outside of [...]
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Early morning blaze destroys home
Story and photo by Felicia Frazar in The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise
Gene and Cindi May’s hard work to move back into her childhood home was destroyed by a fire early Sunday morning. The couple, who had spent the last three years repairing the house on the 100 block of Post Office Street, woke up around 2:30 [...]
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H-E-B to serve firefighters
From The Round Rock Leader
Through a company-wide volunteer service project dubbed “Helping Heroes,” more than 750 H-E-B employees from 77 H-E-B stores in Central Texas will visit local fire stations on Friday, Sept. 10, to serve breakfast to firefighters. Volunteers will also perform service and maintenance projects along with firefighters, such as yard work, station [...]
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Olive Garden serves Killeen firefighters
By Holly Wise in The Killeen Daily Herald
Killeen Fire Department Station 8 firefighters were the guests of honor at their own fire station Monday when they were served lunch by a staff of three from Killeen’s Olive Garden restaurant.
“We chose (this fire station) because a lot of our team members are serviced by this one,” [...]
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