Wise County Fire Marshal Marc Dodd called in the North Central Texas Arson Task Force to help investigate a pair of suspicious Sunday night house fires in New Fairview. Both fires took place in vacant double-wide mobile homes located about 200 yards apart on Prairie Trail, off County Road 4421. The first, at 176 Prairie Trail, was called in by […]
2011-08-08
Monday, August 8, 2011
DOUBLY SUSPICIOUS – Wise County Fire Marshal Marc Dodd called in the North Central Texas Arson Task Force to help investigate a pair of suspicious Sunday night house fires in New Fairview. Both fires took place in vacant double-wide mobile homes located about 200 yards apart on Prairie Trail, off County Road 4421. The first, at 176 Prairie Trail, was […]
Peggy Tutt
FUNERAL for Peggy Tutt, 80, of Sunset is 9 a.m. today at Coker-Hawkins Funeral Chapel in Decatur with burial at 1 p.m. at Bosley Cemetery in Santo.
Davis Stanford Dennis Jr.
GRAVESIDE service for Davis Stanford Dennis Jr, 62, of Bridgeport is 10 a.m. Tuesday at Mountain Park Cemetery in Saint Jo. Family visitation is 6-8 tonight at Hawkins Funeral Home in Bridgeport.
Mark Anthony Perkins
SERVICE for Mark Anthony Perkins, 53, of Aurora is 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of DeBerry Funeral Home with burial at Cottage Hill Cemetery in Celina. Family visitation is 6-8 tonight at the funeral home.
County under full burn ban
Wise County is in a full burn ban effective Monday, Aug. 8. All burning is prohibited for the next seven days. County Judge Bill McElhaney signed a disaster declaration at Monday’s special commissioners meeting at the recommendation of Fire Marshal Marc Dodd. “Normally (at night) the humidity goes up and vegetation absorbs that moisture, and we haven’t had that in […]
Oil field worker suffers head injury
An oil field worker at a drilling site received helicopter transport to a Fort Worth hospital after a piece of equipment fell 10 to 15 feet down onto his head this afternoon. The injury was reported at about 3:30 p.m. It occurred at a ConocoPhillips site located just off Farm Road 2264, several miles east of U.S. 287. The extent […]
