…evere. No longer are we just burning rural land, trees and forest pastures, but we’re burning homes and, unfortunately, people.” said James Hull, director of the Texas Forest Service until 2008. “Utility poles are still burning, stumps are still burning, wire is hanging through the air with only half a pole, swinging. Lines are on the ground,” said Mark Rose, CEO of Bluebon…
…reached Bastrop Texas on Monday causing major damages. Bastrop Texas major wildfire: Flames over a road near Bastrop State Park (Reuters) The Bastrop County Complex Fire has destroyed more than 25,000 acres of forest (two-thirds of the 6,000-acre Bastrop State Park) and has burnt almost 500 houses. Tropical Storm Lee generating powerful winds and drought conditions (Texas has endured its w…
…Bastrop Texas is two. One of the dead people was identified as Michael Troy Farr, 48, who was found Tuesday at his home on Hudson Drive near Smithville. He was a master electrician in Austin and since 2003. The wildfires have been very uncommon this year due to drought, hottest summer, Tropical Storm Lee, the massive growth in Texas’ population (doubled since 1970), urbanization, and cultiva…
…fety responders said officials without any further details. The death toll from Labor Day weekend wildfires across Texas raises to four with these two deaths in the Bastrop County Complex. On Monday a 20-year-old mother and her 18-month-old daughter, caught by flames in a mobile home, died in Gregg County (northeast Texas). This is the most withering wildfire in Texas in over ten years. The Bastro…
…gling operations on both sides of the Texas/Mexico border.” A number of incidents in the past thirty day period caused DPS to issue the notice, however officials say the threat started in 2009. “In ’09 we started seeing that happening with the bridge cases, when the cartels started getting our teenage students to move drugs across the bridge,” McCraw said. “Te…
…disproportionately small compared to the rest of her long, serpent-like body and she struggles to walk. Her tongue often hangs out as she has no teeth and she was born with extra toes, meaning she has 22 claws. But her unique characteristics have struck a chord with the public. Bub has more than 8,000 Facebook fans and video of her have attracted almost 280,000 hits on YouTube. Bub the dwarf cat…
…strop Convention Center continues to serve as a communications center for evacuees. Circle D, Pine Valley, KC Estates and Pine Hill Estates opened on Monday and the road blocks were removed on Highway 21. All communities are scheduled to open until Thursday. Texas Task Force 1 has completed an entire grid search of the burn zone on Monday. Two people are missing, Arlene Page and Steve Ingram. Bast…
r shot her children and then she killed herself during a seven-hour standoff with police, after she was denied for food stamps. Ramie Grimmer’s Facebook profile had been updated to read “may die 2day” just hours before the shootings. The Texas Department of Health and Human Services says the agency rejected Rachelle Grimmer’s application because she did not submit enough information. R…
…ials vowed to rebuild Big Tex, who was made mostly of fibreglass and clothed by a Texas fabric company. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tweeted that the cowboy would become “bigger and better for the 21st Century”. The flames quickly engulfed Big Tex’s structure, leaving behind little more than a charred metal frame The Texas State Fair and Big Tex are intricately linked. The fair…
Gemini, a kitten who was born with two faces on Wednesday, has died after 48 hours. Gemini had four eyes, two noses, two mouths, two ears and 24 toes – seven on each front paw and five each on the back. His owners in Providence say he had two tracheas going into one throat. The women fed him milk by bottle because he ate very slowly. Gemini had four eyes, two noses, two mouths, two ears and 24 t…
…. “The storm was moving really slow and a combination of the pea-sized hail and four to six inches of rain created those conditions.” The rural area where the storm struck was mainly ranch land, about 25 miles north of Amarillo and south of Dumas. Rainwater gushed across the parched land, washing dirt and then mud into the hail, pushing it all onto U.S. 287, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said…
Texas officials have announced that 12 bodies have been recovered from the site of Wednesday’s deadly blast at West Fertilizer plant. About 200 people are now thought to have been injured in the blast. Earlier, the town’s mayor said he believed four firefighters who attended the original fire were among the dead, though this has not been confirmed. Dozens of buildings were destroyed b…
ribune-Herald reported that firefighters had been trying to put out a fire at the plant when the explosion happened, and that some were among those injured. The blast happened in West, a town of about 2,700 people some 20 miles north of Waco. TV images showed streams of emergency vehicles descending on the site and ambulance crews using a nearby sports field as an emergency treatment area. Glenn A…
Amanda Billiris from Texas was arrested after relatives said they caught her having sex with a 15-year-old boy on Thanksgiving Day. The scene unfolded at a family gathering held on the holiday at a house in Oakridge Forest Lane in Spring. Amanda Billiris, 23, an avid motorcycle racer, was arrested after relatives said they witnessed her having sexual intercourse with the boy, the arrest report st…
St Louis Cardinals beat Texas Rangers 6-2 in the decisive seventh game and won baseball’s World Series 2011. Both teams drove in two runs in the first innings, but St Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter then began to dominate as the runs dried up for Texas Rangers. Allen Craig’s solo home run in the third put St Louis Cardinals ahead before Texas Rangers bullpen contrived to walk…
…roblem that we weren’t aware of. Poor little Mercy died the very next day.” According to E! News, Sydney Hitchcock got a call from her boyfriend saying the feline was “limp and not moving” on November 26, and the next day they had Mercy euthanized. Unfortunately, the fatal, cancer-like virus attacked Mercy’s tiny stomach and Kim Kardashian was reportedly quick to point the finger at the bree…
ight are critically hurt. Multiple ambulance crews responded and transported patients to area hospitals. Baptist Beaumont Hospital spokeswoman Mary Poole told KFDM News they’ve received at least 21 patients. One was in critical condition. They’ve transported two children and one adult with head injuries to a Houston hospital. It wasn’t immediately clear how the pileup began, but…
…eport by the Guttmacher Institute, Texas ranks fourth in the nation for the number of teen pregnancies, with 88 pregnancies per 1,000 women, aged 15-19. The report ranked pregnancy trends from 1986 to 2006. It is first in the country for teen birth rates, according to study. While the state – along with Florida and New York – has received considerable abstinence-education funding in re…
…letely done,” she told ABC’s Dallas affiliate WFAA. An unprecedented cluster of tornadoes ripped through major towns and cities in Texas yesterday A grandmother in Diamond Creeks, Forney, where 20 to 30 homes were severely damaged, sought refuge in a bath-tub with her grandchildren as the walls of her home collapsed. The woman was forced to hold on to her 18-month-old grandson’s legs…
k Obama in November. “I am honored that Americans across the country have given their support to my candidacy and I am humbled to have won enough delegates to become the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee,” Mitt Romney said in statement. As polls closed, the former Massachusetts governor was attending a fundraiser in Las Vegas with real estate tycoon Donald Trump. He sp…
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Timothy Grimmer, the 10-year-old boy who was shot by his mother during a standoff at a Texas welfare office on Monday has died – 24 hours after his sister, Ramie Marie Grimmer lost her life. According to Laredo police spokesman Joe Baeza, Timothy Grimmer died Thursday at a San Antonio hospital. Timothy Grimer’ sister, Ramie, 12, died of her wounds the day before. The children’s mother, Rach…
An orphaned puppy and an abandoned kitten who were put together at a rescue centre near London, UK, have become so close – they think they are sisters. Kitty the cat was brought into Battersea Cats and Dogs Home by a kind-hearted member of the public who found her alone in a garden when she was just one day old. To keep her company she was put together with Buttons the Jack Russell, who was…
…ssell Lopez had multiple lacerations on his body which may have come from a blunt object. They were interviewing the children to try to find out what they heard or may have seen. Russell Lopez’s 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe was missing and it is believed the suspects escaped in that. The SUV has Texas license plate number 03SHS6. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to the incident in…
…Wednesday “You could hear it – it sounded like a train going off. It was scary,” he said The same storm spawned another tornado that tore through part of the town of Cleburne, about 25 miles south-east of Granbury, the National Weather Service said. There have been no reports of any fatalities from Cleburne so far. However, dozens of homes have been destroyed or badly damaged, a…
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