Polk County Emergency Management Coordinator Courtney Comstock said, “We are expecting another round of severe weather to roll in in the early morning hours and overnight.”
Homeowners in Crown Colony have voiced their concerns about having the truck stop so near their homes. Construction has begun on the store between College Drive and U.S. Highway 59, which homeowners say is just a few feet from their homes.
Some City of Livingston Public Water System customers are under a boil water notice as of Friday. The mayor has also declared a local disaster in the wake of recent storms and flooding.
“It was to the point where we knew it was getting very dangerous. We offered people a ride to come out, said we weren’t coming back if it got worse. So, most of them chose to come on out,” says Trinity County Sheriff Woody Wallace.
For months the Longview High School choir has struggled to raise about $170,000 for a trip to France to perform at a D-Day ceremony. But now, they can rest easy.
Smith County Emergency Services District 2 is training its new firefighters this week, going through different ‘mayday’ scenarios--meaning when a firefighter is in an emergency.
He discusses how the risk of drowning is most prevalent in home pools for kids between the ages of 1-4 years and explains what parents can do to be as safe as possible.
Polk County Emergency Management is working with the National Weather Service and the Trinity River Authority to monitor weather conditions with upcoming storms.
Who’d have thought that candy could be educational? Well, as it turns out it certainly can be when applied to a concept by Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum CEO Steve Dean. He says after WW II the Russians put a blockade on Berlin and: