House Fires
Lightning strikes are suspected of causing several house fires that broke out when a severe storm system blew in on Friday morning. Fire crews responded to multiple residential calls in communities stretching from Allen and Plano to Frisco and Dallas, with officials citing lightning as the likely cause. Among the most dramatic incidents was a…
From Staff Reports Dallas, you did good. A wildfire relief drive — one of the earliest to get organized — to help survivors of the California blazes in Palisades, Altadena, and Pasadena culminated at the Jesuit Dallas College Preparatory School on Saturday, where dozens of volunteers loaded supplies in an 18-wheeler headed west. The drive…
From Staff Reports Jimmy Watson, a Dallas businessman born and raised in Preston Hollow, is organizing a wildfire relief drive so North Texans can contribute to those displaced by the recent California blazes. A series of ferocious wildfires, fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, roared across the Los Angeles area in early January, killing at…
As the Texas drought rages on, Smokey Bear’s reminder that it just takes one spark to create a devastating wildfire is hitting home. Twenty-six homes were damaged and nine destroyed in a Balch Springs “inferno” July 25. No injuries were reported. And with Wednesday’s news of a grass fire in Frisco near Legacy Drive — thankfully…
Plano fire investigators have not yet identified the cause of an explosion on Shantara Lane last week that damaged a $2.5 million home. The explosion occurred around 9 p.m. July 20 — almost one year to the day of a nearby explosion in the 4400 block of Cleveland Drive that sent six people to the…
