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| Fire Consumes 3 Homes in Southeast Tarrant County VIDEOS: What started as a kitchen fire led to a blaze that destroyed three homes in southeastern Tarrant County Tuesday evening, firefighters say. In a series of tweets, the Rendon Fire Department said the fire was first reported in the 5500 block of Jessica Lane. Early reports from fire officials said eight to nine structures were involved in what was reported to be a grass fire. Neighbors say embers from a kitchen fire spread to two other homes and ignited. In all, three houses were destroyed and several structures were damaged. Hervey Duran said he watched from his home across the street as the flames spread. His house was not damaged, though he said it was a close call. "By the time we got over here, the entire house was on fire in the span of 15 minutes and it got to where it is now. I don't know. I was pretty shook." KXAS-TV NBC 5 FORT WORTH Brazos Valley wildfires explained by College Station fire captain VIDEO: A local fire department explained why wildfires have been occurring so frequently in the Brazos Valley area of Texas. According to the College Station Fire Department, the city has experienced different types of wildfires. Stuart Marrs, College Station's fire captain, explained the differences between house fires and wildfires. Mars said firefighters place a high priority on saving people, stating "The first priority is life safety." "What we want to do is protect the exposures which may be a house, may be a car, may be a property or may be a field that's on fire so we'll work to contain the fires and protect the exposures. Natural breaks like a road, or a river or a creek where it will naturally break and naturally slow down." said Marrs. According to Mars, the hotter it gets, the more wildfires will spread throughout central Texas. KAGS-LD NBC 23 BRYAN Related: Brazos County Volunteer Fire Departments Respond To 61 Grass Fires In The Last 30 Days Former Laredo Fire Chief to start position as assistant city manager In just a few days, the City of Laredo will have a familiar face taking over the role of assistant city manager. Before his departure, Laredo's former interim city manager Keith Selman announced his pick for assistant city manager and that's former Laredo Fire Chief Steve Landin. Landin left the City of Laredo two years ago following a 30 year career with the Laredo Fire Department. Landin retired from the fire department and ended up getting a job with Webb County as the emergency management coordinator. Before he started his position, Landin says he was interested in the role of assistant city manager. He applied in 2020 but said the job just never materialized. After the position became available again, Landin applied and interviewed with Selman. KGNS-TV NBC/ABC 8 LAREDO Austin firefighters helping with Chalk Mountain Fire Wednesday will mark one week since the Austin Fire Department's deployment to the Chalk Mountain Fire burning southwest of Fort Worth near Glen Rose. Engine 432 could stay in the area for longer due to Texas' high wildfire risk. "We continue to mop up and patrol the fire perimeter," Captain David Mechem said in a statement. "We patrol around structures, addressing hotspots located in heavy brush, locating and extinguishing flareups, supporting hand crews with any water supply needs, and bucking downed trees threatening the green areas of the fire." According to a page about the fire in the Incident Information System, the fire began July 18 and stands at 20% containment. A little over 6,700 acres have burned so far. KVUE's sister station WFAA reported that 16 homes have been destroyed, but there are no casualties. KVUE-TV ABC 24 AUSTIN Family's home total loss after fire in Ore City A family has been displaced from their home after a fire broke out in Ore City on Tuesday night. According to Ore City Fire Chief Gaston DeBerry, the call came in at around 6:30 p.m. They responded to a large house on fire on Wild Daisy Road. He said no one was home when the fire started. The home is a total loss, DeBerry said. There were no injuries or fatalities due to the incident. The fire marshal will investigate to discover the cause of the fire. Assisting Ore City firefighters were Diana, New Mountain, and Gilmer fire departments. Some of those will remain at the scene through the night to monitor for flare ups. KLTV ABC 7 TYLER Warehouse fire reported in Laredo VIDEO: One person is dead following an accident that led to a massive fire in the Mines Road area. The incident happened before 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon after a cloud of black smoke could be seen coming from the northwest part of town. According to a witness, an 18-wheeler burst into flames after crashing into a warehouse off of Mines Road next to the Max Mandel Golf Course. The witness also adds that the tractor-trailer crashed after its tires popped. Laredo Police say they are investigating an accident that involves a tractor-trailer that went into a warehouse and resulted in one fatality. KGNS-TV NBC/ABC 8 LAREDO PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| 4-alarm fire ravages building in Massachusetts VIDEO: A four-alarm fire has torn through two mill buildings on Woronoco Road in Russell. Multiple fires at the vacant Strathmore buildings over the last several years prompted the State Fire Marshal's office to offer a reward back in 2020. Fire officials told Western Mass News that they expect to be here until sunrise Wednesday, working to put out the fire and hot spots on the building which has completely collapsed. Witnesses who were staying in a house close by told us that they were forced to evacuate. "We just got us and the pets," said Jaynice Alvarado. "That's all we could get. They kept telling us to get out." Flames engulfed multiple buildings at the Strathmore Mills in Russell on Tuesday. One witness said the fire seemed to come out of nowhere. WGGB-TV ABC/FOX/MY NETWORK 40 SPRINGFIELD Illinois firefighters take third place in World Police and Fire Games VIDEO/PHOTOS: Members of the Springfield Fire Department (SFD) are competing on the world stage. Several local firefighters are at the World Police and Fire Games. According to the Springfield 37 Firefighters Union, first responders from more than 70 countries are competing in the games. Springfield's firefighters -- Captain Bryce McCormick, Captain Eric Jaeger, Captain Phil Johnson and Captain Kainan Rinaberger -- took home third place in the team's ultimate firefighter event. On Tuesday, the firefighters union says Captain Phil Johnson finished with a 500-meter row in 1.22 seconds (a PR) and earned a silver medal, bringing SFDs metal count to 5, 4bronze (Team FF) and one silver. After the men's heavyweight final, 500M, with a 1.22 row (also a PR) Captain Bryce McCormick earns the 6th medal of the WPFG for Local 37 Firefighters, a bronze. WICS-TV ABC 20 SPRINGFIELD University of Arizona, Tucson Fire Department research helps reclassify firefighters' cancer risk Studies by University of Arizona Health Sciences, in collaboration with Tucson Fire Department, have helped provide evidence that occupational exposure does pose a cancer risk to firefighters. Findings from these studies contributed to a larger body of evidence that led the International Agency for Research on Cancer to reclassify firefighters' occupational exposure from "possibly carcinogenic" to "carcinogenic." Dr. Jeff Burgess, a UArizona public health professor, was one of 25 experts invited to take part in an IARC working group to review scientific literature on the topic. The group found evidence showing that occupational exposure causes mesothelioma and bladder cancer, and limited evidence that it causes colon cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, melanoma of the skin and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. KGUN-TV ABC 9 TUCSON Cigarettes fueling rise in Minnesota's preventable fire deaths Drought conditions around the Twin Cities metro have substantially increased the risk of fires, a problem Minnesota's struggling with this year. Cigarette-related fires, specifically, are on pace to be more deadly any year on average in the last decade. Ralph Swarm died from his injuries in a barn fire in Foreston in May. His family says it was a cigarette ember that started it. Rick Scharber, Swarm's brother-in-law, is now in physical therapy after overcoming renal failure following the fire and nine surgeries. "My heart aches for every single one of these people that have suffered a loss of a family member due to something that was preventable," said State Fire Marshal Jim Smith. Smith says there have been an average of eight or nine cigarette-related fire deaths a year over the last decade. There have already been seven this year. WCCO-TV CBS 4 MINNEAPOLIS Montana fire department's historical items are moving to new fire station The Bozeman Fire Department is getting ready to move to the new Public Safety Center and many of their keepsakes are getting packed up with them. The Bozeman Fire Station downtown off of N Rouse Ave has been home to dozens of firefighters for over 60 years but as the Bozeman community continues to grow the fire station needed to expand as well. As the fire department preps for their big move to the new center, many traditions inside the station such as their 24-year-old coffee table will move down the road with them. Bozeman Fire Department Battalion Chief, Graver Johnson said, "When you get hired here you sign the table, and then when you retire you also sign it. There are lots of signatures and we first got it in 1998... hopefully, it stays around for a long time." The table is not the only staple item from the fire department that is going to be relocated. Bozeman Fire was one of the select few stations that still has a Silsby Steamer fire engine on display. BLACK HILLS PIONEER PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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