Macias Thursday marked 20 years of service with the Texas City Fire Department, becoming the first woman in the department’s 115-year history to reach the milestone.
It's been nearly two years since five people died in a house fire in the city of Jeannette, Westmoreland County.
The Texas A&M Forest Service reported the Yellow Fire was estimated to have impacted 8,500 acres as of 9:25 a.m. on Wednesday, and was approximately 30% contained.
Everything seemed routine at the busy Port of Texas City on the morning of April 16, 1947. A small fire was discovered aboard ...