Texas Fire Marshal Offers Old Cases For New Review
The Texas state fire marshal has volunteered to turn over more than a decade of his office's casework to advocates so they can examine them for wrongful convictions.
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The Texas state fire marshal has volunteered to turn over more than a decade of his office's casework to advocates so they can examine them for wrongful convictions.
Hinze's Bar-B-Q in Wharton, a roadside staple on U.S. Highway 59 for more than 40 years, burned down Monday night after a pit fire got out of control.
A kitchen fire caused an Arlington apartment complex to go up in flames.
The rubble of a burned out apartment complex remains untouched after three months, angering area residents.
A one-year-old Chihuahua named Pony has faced tragedy twice in her short life. In 2013 she survived the awful fertilizer explosion in West, and Yvette Childers adopted her as a refugee pet. But last week, death came calling again.
North Texas authorities say they've filed charges against a 27-year-old man who they say set himself and a police officer on fire in a confrontation at a chicken wing restaurant.
New video reveals the drama of a bizarre arrest in Cedar Hill where an attempted burglary suspect wound up on fire, along with the officer trying to apprehend him.
Cedar Hill Police confirm that three officers have been rushed to the hospital with burn injuries while trying to take a suspect into police custody.
The Fourth of July weekend is not over, but so far Dallas Fire has responded to fewer fire calls this holiday.
Two Fort Worth firefighters have escaped serious injuries after part of a ceiling and roof collapsed during a house fire.
A Friday morning fire at a plastics company in Mansfield is sending a column of black smoke high into the sky.
Firefighters were called to a downtown Dallas highrise hotel Friday morning after smoke was seen rising from the building.
Besides rain and floods there's another element to severe weather that's proving to be costly -- lightning. In Frisco, a lightning strike is being blamed for sparking a blaze that required four fire engines and a ladder truck to extinguish.
Fire investigators in Colleyville are still trying to determine what caused a fire than killed a teenager.
Dallas Fire-Rescue stations are now equipped with oxygen masks for pets they may come across while on duty.
Arson investigators are on the scene of a house fire in Colleyville, where a body has been found.
The Dallas County Sheriff's Office is looking for a mystery man who helped rescue a woman from a burning building.
A demolition crew continues to clean up charred debris at Lake Whitney. There isn't much left of the 4,000 square foot luxury home that once dangled over the lake. Though the rubble will soon be gone there's more work that needs to be done.
Despite a fire that all but destroyed their building, a Fort Worth church holds service Sunday.
A luxury house dangling over a fractured Lake Whitney cliff that fascinated people nation-wide is now a smoldering pile of rubble.
See what others had to say as a home on the verge of falling into Lake Whitney was burned to the ground by authorities.
Authorities burned the teetering home on Friday morning to prevent it from falling into the water.
Deputies have seized empty gasoline cans and a propane torch from a North Texas home where a man was accused of setting his girlfriend on fire.
Less than 48 hours after a fertilizer plant fire, that stirred memories of last year's deadly disaster in West, the small Texas town of Athens went on with its signature event - Athens Old Fiddlers Reunion.
Doctors are treating two people after a fire engulfed a duplex in Frisco following a reported cooking accident.
