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| Dozers, drone used to combat Mount Enterprise-area forest fire VIDEO: For days, much of Texas has seen dry windy conditions, ripe for spreading wildfires. The Rusk County Office of Emergency Management responded to a fire near Highway 259, not far from Mount Enterprise. No homes or structures were threatened. Terry Linder, Rusk County Fire Marshall, first went live at around 3:00 p.m. Monday afternoon on the Rusk County Office of Emergency Management Facebook page to inform their followers of a forest fire. Their page currently has more than 11,500 followers and both videos received significant engagement from the community. "Hey, good afternoon, I'm Terry Linder, Rusk County Fire Marshall, office of emergency management and we're down here at Mount Enterprise at something we don't have very often - we're calling it a forest fire," Linder, said. KTRE-TV ABC 9 LUFKIN 'I wanted to scream:' Chilean woman reunites with son, a Houston firefighter who was stolen at birth VIDEO: A Houston firefighter opens up about being stolen shortly after birth and his journey to Chile to connect with the birth mother he never knew. Before his journey, Tyler Graf said he was just an ordinary 38-year-old man with a wife and child. "I was adopted by a very loving, caring family," Graf said. "I think it was just knowing that my story did start before I was adopted. So, it's kind of like missing the first five minutes of the movie." After becoming a father, Graf tried to learn about his birth family. Suddenly, he got a call he never expected. "That's when they sat me down and told me who I was, how they know who I am and what the true backstory really is," Graf said. He had been stolen from his birth mother, who was told her son died shortly after birth. KTRK-TV ABC 13 HOUSTON Sheriff: Nacogdoches County man arrested for arson after telling authorities he was going to set corpse on fire A Nacogdoches County man was arrested on Saturday for arson after he called authorities to tell them he was going to set a corpse on fire after killing someone in retaliation for another person's death, said the Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office. Jimmy Brandon Scroggins, 37, was charged with a second-degree felony for arson and the following misdemeanors: criminal trespass, resisting arrest, and evading arrest. Deputies were sent to the 700 block of CR 4082 around 8:45 p.m. after 911 operators received a strange call from an unknown person about them intending to set a body on fire. The caller hung up and when dispatchers tried to call them back, they would not answer. Deputies later arrived to the scene and saw that a large part of the woods was on fire, so they called firefighters to assist. KETK-TV NBC 56 JACKSONVILLE Waco Fire Academy cadet loses everything in house fire Cheyenne Holloway and her family lost everything they owned in a house fire last Thursday. "We lost baby books, blankets, backpacks that they all three used," says Kerri Harris, Cheyenne's mother. They lost everything in the fire, clothes, shoes, furniture, food, essentials, even their pets. Four dogs (two of which were service dogs for Cheyenne and Lacee), one cat, and six baby chicks beneath a heat lamp were trapped inside. Holloway says she had to rehome her livestock. "My dog that I had for nine years going through everything with me, he was a service animal," says Waco Fire Academy cadet, Cheyenne Holloway. Hearing the tragic news, friends and family reached out to Cheyenne and her family to help them get back on their feet. KWKT-TV FOX 44 WACO Fort Worth celebrates National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week The City of Fort Worth is celebrating April 10-16 as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. This week, sponsored by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International and celebrated annually, honors the thousands of men and women who respond to emergency calls, dispatch emergency professionals and equipment and render life-saving assistance. Fort Worth's 911 telecommunicators processed 1.4 million calls last year — 790,000 of those were emergency calls. Fort Worth's public safety telecommunicators operate on a 24-7 basis, with seven shifts, and employing 125 police telecommunicators and nine supervisors. Public safety telecommunicators are trained professionals who work in high-stress situations processing emergency calls, managing complaints and sending reports to officers in the field, sometimes without ever receiving resolution. CITY OF FORT WORTH Former Wichita Falls restaurant a total loss following two-alarm fire VIDEO: The former home of Freddy's Casa Mañana that has sat vacant for several years is considered a total loss following a two-alarm fire Monday afternoon. According to Eddie Mawson, Assistant Fire Marshal for the Wichita Falls Fire Department, fire fighters were called to a structure fire in the 1400 block of Iowa Park Road around 3:45 p.m. on Monday, April 11, 2022. Mawson said the first crew en route to the scene near Iowa Park Road's intersection with Sheppard Access Road saw heavy smoke and called for additional units, elevating the incident to a two-alarm fire. The structure on fire was a City of Wichita Falls Trustee Property that was formerly Freddy's Casa Mañana, which closed its doors in the 1990's and has been vacant for years. KFDX-TV NBC 3 WICHITA FALLS PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEO: Traffic Cameras Capture Fiery Crash Involving Suspected Impaired Driver In Minnesota A driver suspected of being under the influence crashed into a box truck on a north metro overpass Monday afternoon, causing a fiery chain reaction. The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened at about 2:30 p.m. on Highway 10 over MN 65 in Spring Lake Park. A MnDOT camera captured the incident, showing a speeding sedan driving erratically onto the highway from an on-ramp. The sedan strikes the front of the eastbound box truck, causing the truck driver to overcorrect and smash into the highway's side wall, nearly driving off the overpass onto MN 65. The box truck then becomes engulfed in flames. There were only two drivers involved in the crash, and both suffered injuries described as non-life threatening. Investigators suspect the driver of the sedan was "driving while impaired." The state patrol is investigating. WCCO-TV CBS 4 MINNEAPOLIS Brooklyn subway shooting leaves 16 injured, 'dangerous' suspect at large: New York officials VIDEOS/PHOTOS: A manhunt is underway in New York City for a suspect accused of donning a gas mask, setting off a smoke canister and opening fire inside a Brooklyn subway train and station during the morning commute Tuesday, injuring at least 16 people, five of whom are in critical condition. The attack began around 8:24 a.m., as a Manhattan-bound N train approached the 36th St. station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The suspect, described as an approximately 5' 5" tall Black male with a heavy build, is still at large and is "dangerous," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters nearly four hours after the shooting. The suspect's shots struck multiple people on the subway car and on the platform, New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. He was wearing a green "construction type" vest and a hooded gray sweatshirt. The suspect has not been identified by authorities, Sewell said. FOX NEWS Pennsylvania: 140 years of the Lancaster city fire department A bell rings, shaking the bricks of the building below at 411 W. King St. in Lancaster. The sound is familiar – something's on fire. Horses rush from the stable behind the firehouse. Firefighters latch on their heavy equipment, driving the teams toward the smoke, hooves thundering and equipment clanking through narrow city streets. It's nearing the end of the 19th century, and the county's first paid fire department is settling into its role. The Lancaster City Bureau of Fire, which marks its 140th anniversary this month, is one of the oldest paid fire departments in Pennsylvania. The first was Philadelphia in 1871. Fourteen decades. Nearly 1,000 firefighters filed through the ranks, led by 17 chiefs. Thousands of blazes extinguished. Eleven firefighters' lives lost in the line of duty. Countless lives saved. Hundreds of properties salvaged. LNP/LANCASTER ONLINE - METERED SITE 'I wanted to scream:' Chilean woman reunites with son, a firefighter in Texas, who was stolen at birth VIDEO: A Houston firefighter opens up about being stolen shortly after birth and his journey to Chile to connect with the birth mother he never knew. Before his journey, Tyler Graf said he was just an ordinary 38-year-old man with a wife and child. "I was adopted by a very loving, caring family," Graf said. "I think it was just knowing that my story did start before I was adopted. So, it's kind of like missing the first five minutes of the movie." After becoming a father, Graf tried to learn about his birth family. Suddenly, he got a call he never expected. "That's when they sat me down and told me who I was, how they know who I am and what the true backstory really is," Graf said. He had been stolen from his birth mother, who was told her son died shortly after birth. The practice of coercive adoptions became widespread under dictator Augusto Pinochet's reign in Chile during the 1970s and 1980s. KTRK-TV ABC 13 HOUSTON PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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