Two firefighters are recovering in the hospital after suffering injuries while responding to an RV fire in Rendon on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1 was the initial responder to the RV fire, but once the flames began to grow, crews from other jurisdictions were dispatched to assist. <\/p>\n
The Crowley Fire Department was dispatched to Jessica Lane in Tarrant County at approximately 2:30 p.m. <\/p>\n
CFD crews found a fully involved RV fire actively spreading to nearby structures and surrounding brush and trees when they arrived. <\/p>\n
The incident quickly grew into a large-scale response involving 33 apparatus from Mansfield, Crowley, Tarrant County ESD, Pantego, Fort Worth, Forest Hill, Dalworthington Gardens, Benbrook, Venus, Edgecliff Village, Everman, Johnson County ESD, and the Texas A&M Forestry Service, according to CFD.<\/p>\n
Mansfield Fire said its crews worked the fire for approximately seven hours, working alongside mutual aid partners in 100+ degree temperatures. CFD said its crews worked for approximately three hours.<\/p>\n
Fire suppression efforts were complicated by numerous factors including, but not limited to: limited apparatus access, the distance to available hydrants, and the significant water supply needed throughout the incident.<\/p>\n
Authorities said that some of those water supply lines were also damaged by vehicle traffic, which created additional challenges for crews working to maintain an adequate water supply.<\/p>\n
Two firefighters were injured in the response and sent to the hospital. Authorities say they are in stable condition. It is unknown which departments the injured firefighters worked for.<\/p>\n
No civilians were injured as a result of the fire either.<\/p>\n
Crews are still on scene extinguishing hotspots throughout approximately five acres of burned brush and trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two firefighters are recovering in the hospital after suffering injuries while responding to an RV fire in Rendon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,430],"class_list":["post-421227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-north-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}