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| 23 Families Left Homeless After Fire Rips Through Northeast Dallas Apartment Building Overnight VIDEO: Nearly two dozen families were forced from their homes early Thursday after a fire spread through a Northeast Dallas apartment building, firefighters say. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said firefighters were first called at 12:50 a.m. to the Oak Meadows Apartments located at 11050 Woodmeadow Parkway. First responders found heavy flames shooting through the roof of the 3-story apartment building, prompting an immediate call for backup. Firefighters attacked the fire and were able to stop it from spreading further by accessing a breezeway in front of the fire's direction of travel, Evans said. One resident was burned while trying to escape. He was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. A total of 24 residences were damaged, Evans said, one of which was unoccupied. KXAS-TV NBC 5 FORT WORTH City of Plainview announces new fire chief The Plainview City Council confirmed the City's Manager's appointment of Bobby Gipson as the Plainview Fire/EMS Chief at their regularly scheduled Council meeting Tuesday night. Gipson will begin his tenure on Wednesday, September 15th. As the new Fire Chief, Gipson will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations and strategic plans of the City's Fire/EMS Department. Most recently, Gipson served as the Interim Fire Chief for seven months and has been with the City of Plainview for more than 32 years serving from Firefighter to Captain. In addition to being a certified Firefighter and Paramedic, Gipson is obtaining a Certified Public Manager Accreditation through Texas Tech University Public Administration Program. "Gipson has done an excellent job over these past several months," says Jeffrey Snyder, City Manager. KAMC-TV ABC 28 LUBBOCK Atascosa County: Man crashes into Leming Volunteer Fire Department On Saturday, Sept. 11, during the Memorial Service for the 20th Anniversary of 9-11, while speakers spoke about the bravery of first responders who run toward danger, Loren and Tammy Gillespie of the Leming Volunteer Fire Department got up out of their chairs and started running. They had received news that there was an accident and a crash in Leming, not knowing it was their own building that had been hit until they drove up to it. All Leming VFD team members are OK. The man who crashed into the building is in critical condition. He was ejected from the car and made contact with the flag pole. "I want to thank my firefighters of the Leming VFD in the outstanding job they performed with me today to do everything we could to get our station back in working order. We got some of the BEST fire-fighting brothers and sisters in our department and honored to have them with me," said Leming VFD Chief Loren Gillespie. PLEASANTON EXPRESS City of Pampa names interim fire chief The City of Pampa has named Kasey Presson as interim fire chief. The City said Presson has served the last four years as the Deputy Chief of Operations under previous Fire Chief, Gregg Lee. Chief Lee died August 30. "I am definitely going to miss Chiefs guiding wisdom and I am beyond thankful for the five years that we spent learning from him. I vow to do my very best not to stray from the amazing example he set for us." said Presson. The City continues saying Presson began his career with the Pampa Fire Department in 2005 and has served his entire career in Pampa. KCIT-TV FOX 14 AMARILLO Rusk Fire Department builds fundraiser to help fire chief battling COVID-19 One East Texas community is coming together to help a local firefighter who's been battling with COVID-19. Rusk Fire Department (RFD) Chief Donald Lankford has been battling COVID-19 since August 8th. He's currently on a ventilator fighting for his life. "He's a big asset to this fire department and with him gone, it's kind of hard on us," said fireman James Sanchez. Former colleagues of Landford say he goes the extra mile for people in the community. "He cares about the people and he is as far as I know he is the only fireman that has made every call this department had in one year," said Wayne Morgan, a retired Rusk Fire Chief. The RFD decided to launch a fundraiser so the community could help chief Lankford with his medical expenses. KYTX-TV CBS 19 TYLER One person being treated for burns after chemical explosion at Corpus Christi apartment complex Emergency crews were called just after 2 p.m. Wednesday to investigate an explosion at the Chandler's Mill Apartments off Airline Road near Holly. The entire wall of an upstairs apartment was missing when 3News arrived at the scene. Corpus Christi police were dispatched to assist the Corpus Christi Fire Department as they investigate what caused the incident. Corpus Christi Fire Chief Robert Rocha said one person was transported to Bay Area Hospital to be treated for burns. Officials said a contractor was working in the apartment at the time of the explosion, and that it was a chemical explosion in nature. KIII-TV ABC 3 CORPUS CHRISTI PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| 23 Families Left Homeless After Fire Rips Through Texas Apartment Building VIDEO: Nearly two dozen families were forced from their homes early Thursday after a fire spread through a Northeast Dallas apartment building, firefighters say. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said firefighters were first called at 12:50 a.m. to the Oak Meadows Apartments located at 11050 Woodmeadow Parkway. First responders found heavy flames shooting through the roof of the 3-story apartment building, prompting an immediate call for backup. Firefighters attacked the fire and were able to stop it from spreading further by accessing a breezeway in front of the fire's direction of travel, Evans said. A total of 24 residences were damaged, Evans said, one of which was unoccupied. Twelve of the units were damaged by fire and the rest were uninhabitable due to water and smoke damage. KXAS-TV NBC 5 FORT WORTH California fire captain severely burned in warehouse explosion sues vape shop, building owners A Los Angeles Fire Department captain severely burned in a May 2020 explosion inside a downtown L.A. warehouse has sued the owners of the building and a vaping supply shop housed there, accusing them of hazardous activity, premise liability and negligence. Victor Aguirre and his wife, Claudia Aguirre, filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court against property owner Steve Sungho Lee and his various companies along with the operators of Green Buddha and Smoke Tokes, a smoke and vape shop inside the East 3rd Street warehouse where the explosion occurred. Twelve firefighters were injured. After a criminal investigation by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Los Angeles Police Department, they were charged with more than 300 criminal counts. KTLA-TV 5 CW LOS ANGELES Kansas fire department members speak out after viral apartment rescue VIDEO: For the first time since their heroic act was caught on camera, Wichita firefighters spoke with KSN News about their Labor Day fire rescue at an area apartment complex. Fireman Brian Doffing says apartment fires like this don't always end with the best results for victims, but being able to rescue everyone made this one of the types of calls is exactly what makes their job worth it. "Not all of them can go great," Doffing explained. "But every call giving everything you got and training every day, I think that's what makes it different here." "In your mind, things are moving so quickly, and you look at the situation, and you see what you did, but when you watch the video, you go through and start thinking, why did you make those decisions? And then you can analyze it," Doffing added. KSNW-TV NBC 3 WICHITA GM advising some Bolt EV owners to park 50 feet away from other cars in case of fire General Motors is advising some Chevrolet Bolt owners to not park their electric cars within 50 feet of other vehicles to reduce the risk of a potential fire spreading to nearby cars and trucks. The warning follows the Detroit automaker recalling more than 140,000 of the EVs produced since 2016 due to the risk of batteries spontaneously catching fire from "two rare manufacturing defects." GM has confirmed fires in at least 12 vehicles, but more continue to be reported. At least one of the recalled vehicles reportedly caught fire and spread to a Maserati and Hyundai in Sacramento, California. The parking advice is being given to customers that call into the company's call center about parking their recalled vehicles in parking lots or structures, according to GM spokesman Dan Flores. CNBC U.S. researchers to study long-term COVID-19 symptoms in thousands of survivors The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that it was awarding nearly $470 million to New York University Langone Health for research into the long-term effects of COVID-19 to ramp up an unprecedented national effort to study so-called "long COVID." The federal money will be divvied up by NYU to fund more than 100 researchers at institutions around the country, accelerating work to build a sweeping "meta-cohort" encompassing thousands COVID-19 survivors of various ages and backgrounds who are still experiencing symptoms more than a month after their initial infection. "The only way we're going to sort this out is with very large studies that collect lots and lots of data about symptoms, physical findings, and laboratory measures," NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told reporters at a briefing Wednesday. CBS NEWS PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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