Posts Tagged: Texas
A fascinating film: A day in the life of an Austin, Texas firefighter in 1953.
Film shows some of the first black firefighters hired in the state of Texas.
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Texas firefighters turned away from Dairy Queen. Was it a parking situation or was the fire truck bad for business?
DQ owner actually handles bad publicity expertly.
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Video: Mansfield, TX Christmas Day Fire
Mansfield FD, along with mutual aid from Arlington FD, battled this 1 alarm house fire on the evening of Christmas day, December 25 2011. Upon arrival, MFD reported heavy smoke showing. Fire quickly extended to other parts of the house and went well involved over a small amount of time. This fire occurred in the 1500 block of Inverness Drive.
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Pre-arrival video: Christmas Eve house fire in Paris, Texas.
Quick knock down on what appears to be a room and contents.
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Planes Down in New Jersey and Texas
TWO LIGHT PLANES HAVE CRASHED In the past 24 hours killing all passengers on both aircraft, one in northern New Jersey and the other in Brazos County, Texas.
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This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004
" - it was reported that all at once it sounded like firefighters were yelling “back out, back out” and “bail out.”"
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Channelview, Texas fire engine & pick-up truck collide. Three civilians hurt.
Firefighters escaped injury in t-bone collision.
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Raw video: Fort Worth, Texas house fire.
Fort Worth Engine 22 in action.
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Must see raw video: Smoke explosion at Texas house fire.
Pre-arrival video from Texas.
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Dashcam video: Deputies & firefighters try to get ahead of devasting Bastrop County, Texas wildfire on Labor Day weekend.
Means of egress cut off as deputies work on evacuations.
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Watch raw video as fire truck is engulfed at chemical plant fire in Waxahachie, Texas
Chemical plant fire burning out of control. Firefighters escape.
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It’s back: Raw video & fireground audio from Murphy, Texas fire reposted.
The video vanished into thin air shortly after STATter911.com posted it.
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Texas Task Force 1 Deployed to Search Town Destroyed by Wildfire
Texas Task Force 1 has been deployed to Bastrop, Texas (Near Austin) to conduct a search of the scorched town. Approximately 700 homes haves have been destroyed by the wildfire.
The State of Texas has been a leader in enhancing their US&R Task F…
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Dallas, Texas Lt. Todd Krodle dies at afternoon apartment fire. Fell through roof during ventilation.
Lt. Krodle was a 17-year-veteran.
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Three firefighters hurt in three-alarm high-rise fire that wasn’t. Details from Irving, Texas.
Two of the firefighters were hurt when hose popped off of standpipe connection.
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More than six-hour rescue to get man from 760-foot level of tower. Firefighters in Burleson, Texas tell their story.
Firefighter cramped up trying to get rope to the platform.
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Hazmat makes quick work of HCL Spill in Texas
KCBD Reports: The Lubbock, Texas Fire Department HAZMAT team is assisting the Slaton, Texas Fire Department with a reported hydrochloric acid spill near the railroad in Slaton.
Lubbock County Emergency Management Coordinator Clinton Thetford says …
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Priorities: Evacuation plan? Fire & smoke in American Airlines Center in Dallas & no one seems in any hurry to order Rihanna fans to leave. But the star makes a quick exit.
Video shows almost five minutes before evacuation decision is made.
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For second time in a year firefighter falls out of stands at Rangers Ballpark going after ball. Brownwood FD Lt. Shannon Stone died on way to the hospital.
Incident happened a year and a day after Lake Cities FD firefighter fell from stands.
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“Melons Bursting In Air”
How to blow things up, Texas style, during a drought
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Fire Videos Around the World From Cleveland to Houston & Thailand to Canada and More!
This is a bit of a long post...and it involves plenty of video. I got in front of the computer searching for what fires were caught on video and uploaded to Youtube...and I found a ton!
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Nude fire station photos continue to cause trouble for Pasadena, Texas Fire Department three years after it was dealt with. A good reminder about social media ethics & just plain ignorance.
Former member and wife still tarnish fire department's image.
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Houston’s Darin Unruh back fighting fires. Captain was critically burned & in cardiac arrest at 2008 blaze.
Darin Unruh decided a fire department desk job was not for him.
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Almost three-thousand applicants must redo interview process in Austin, Texas. Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr talks about anonymous copy of oral exam she received.
Re-test will cost city about $10,000.
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Fire engine rolls in Galveston County, Texas. One firefighter hurt. More apparatus news.
In Galveston County, Texas last night, a Dickinson fire truck on the way to a wires arcing call slid off a crumbling, freshly paved road into a ditch and turned onto its side. The chief of the department called it a "slow roll". One firefight…
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