Firefighters have had a busy holiday weekend.
Through 5 o’clock Monday, College Station had 99 calls.
Among them was an illegal trash fire off Dowling Road between Rock Prairie and Graham that became a grass fire. Batallion Chief Thomas Goehl (GALE) says a storage building was destroyed. It took 20 minutes to get the fire under control but another hour and a half was spent making sure the grass fire didn’t restart.
That call, at noon, came in as some units were leaving the area of a propane tank leak that closed the intersection of Rock Prairie and Bird Pond for three hours Monday morning. Goehl says the tank fell off the trailer, damaging the pavement along with releasing gas.
Bryan and volunteer firefighters also dealt with structure fires during the weekend, beginning Friday night with a mobile home fire east of the twin cities off Highway 30. And late Monday afternoon, Bryan units responded to an attic fire that began from a flying ember off a barbecue grill.
Click below for comments from Thomas Goehl, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.