Pressure Is On Fort Worth City Leaders Over Proposed Budget
Fort Worth has a plan to avoid understaffed fire houses due to budget cuts without more money or manpower.
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Fort Worth has a plan to avoid understaffed fire houses due to budget cuts without more money or manpower.
A budget battle in Fort Worth has flooded city hall with letters, e-mails and calls. The source of the outcry is either an educational campaign or a scare tactic depending on who you ask.
Fire and smoke heavily damaged part of the iconic Lonesome Dove restaurant in Fort Worth, owned by nationally recognized chef Tim Love.
The budget would do away with 36 vacant jobs in the Fire Department and 46 vacant jobs in the Police Department. The city will layoff 16 people in the Planning Department as part of a reorganization.
The Fort Worth Fire Department responded to a 2-alarm fire Sunday in the 300 block of Dakota Ridge Dr. in Tarrant County.
Hot weather and dry grass combined to force a temporary halt to Thursday night's "Fort Worth Fourth Fireworks" show when the pyrotechnics touched off grass fires.
A two-alarm fire swept through an east Fort Worth apartment complex on Wednesday night, damaging eight units and sending one person to the hospital.
A two-alarm fire swept through an East Fort Worth apartment complex Sunday night, damaging at least 12 units and sending one person to the hospital with smoke inhalation.
Fire kindled by high winds seriously injured a homeless man in South Fort Worth this morning, destroying a pickup truck and damaging the home near where it was parked.
Tuesday, Fort Worth broke ground on a nearly $100 million, state-of-the art training center in south central Fort Worth off of West Felix Street.
A fast-moving fire swept through a Northwest Fort Worth stable early Monday, killing at least 11 horses and injuring several others, authorities said.
Fireworks are illegal in the City of Fort Worth - but city officials will ask no questions when the Fire Department hosts a Fireworks & Ammunition Collection Event later this month.
A church fire in southwest Fort Worth has dampened the holiday spirit. People driving on Granbury Road just after 7 this morning called 911 after seeing smoke coming from the Chinese Baptist Church of Fort Worth.
People don't usually think of fire stations as a normal place to go for a breast cancer screenings, but four North Texas women are glad they stopped by one firehouse.
The Fort Worth Fire Department responded Wednesday to a two-alarm apartment fire in east Fort Worth.
An air conditioning repairman remained hospitalized Friday afternoon after getting burned while working on the roof of a Fort Worth food market.
Vacant homes on Fort Worth's southeast side have been burning this spring at the rate of more than one a week. A fire spokesman called it a common issue, but the fire department said Friday it will take steps to curb the problem.
Just before dawn a fire broke out in an apartment, adjacent to a home on Fort Worth's west side. One person inside the apartment was seriously injured but managed to crawl out a window and run across the street to a neighbor's house.
An early-morning fire at a home in the 1300 block of E. Magnolia St. killed one person and injured two others Sunday.
