The Franklin Fire Department is among several Tennessee agencies lending personnel to help battle a wildfire in North Central Texas.<\/p>\n
Four Franklin firefighters left Aug. 30 for Palo Pinto County, west of Fort Worth, where the Ross Fire has been burning since Aug. 24.<\/p>\n
Lt. Anthony Sedlak, Engineer James Hinkle, Engineer-Paramedic Brad Kamau and Firefighter Andrew Bowden are representing Engine 1 and Franklin Fire Department Special Operations. They are part of a 16-day deployment involving six other Tennessee agencies, including the Maury County Emergency Management Agency and Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue.<\/p>\n
Brentwood Fire and Rescue also sent four firefighters to Texas \u201cto provide backfill and relief to crews providing structural fire protection from the Ross Fire,\u201d according to the department.<\/p>\n
The fire has burned more than 90,000 acres and was about 57% contained as of Sunday, according to CBS News.<\/p>\n
Franklin Fire Chief Glenn Johnson praised the department\u2019s personnel for their work through the Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cMorale is high,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re doing good work down there. They didn\u2019t get a holiday. They\u2019re representing Franklin and the state of Tennessee well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Franklin Fire Department is among several Tennessee agencies lending personnel to help battle a wildfire in North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26769,150400,112428,150401,18874,124582,125760,150402,150403,29027,223,150404,150405,27,29,28,150406,150407],"class_list":["post-432903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arrington","tag-bethesda","tag-brentwood","tag-college_grove","tag-communities","tag-fairview","tag-franklin","tag-grassland","tag-leipers_fork","tag-local_news","tag-news","tag-nolensville","tag-spring_hill","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-thompsons_station","tag-triune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432903","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=432903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}