The page says Desoto, Duncanville, Cockrell Hill, Hutchins, and Lancaster fire units were required for a large grass fire. Dallas units did not respond and were out of service.
The comments follow a similar post just over two weeks ago referring to out of service engines in Dallas. That post prompted questions from City Council member Cara Mendelsohn who inquired about eleven reserve engines.
DFR Unable To Respond?
The reports of units out of service come shortly after the city reported responding to more incidents over July 4.
Multiple grass fires taxed Dallas Fire Rescue over July 4.
The City of Dallas has a consistent issue enforcing fireworks related nuissance crimes. Year after year Dallas Fire Rescue conducts public safety campaigns on fireworks. Year after year, fireworks are an issue.
More fires July 4, 2022 is the report of Jon Fortune, Assistant City Manager for Public Safety. The kicker is there was less enforcement by Dallas.
The City of Dallas has a consistent issue enforcing fireworks related nuissance crimes. Year after year Dallas Fire Rescue conducts public safety campaigns on fireworks. Year after year, fireworks are an issue.
Fireworks are illegal in the city limits and up to 5,000 feet outside of them.
More Fires July 4 – The Data
Fortune’s memo covers the usual potpourri of cherry picked data. The fire department responded to more reported structure fires, alarms and other incidents. Compared to last year, DFR responded to more than five times as many incidents.
There were more dumpster and trash fires than a year ago, but the biggest increase was in grass fires. Fortune notes that “further analysis is warranted” to determine causation.
This year DFR and Dallas Police issued nine citations for illegal fireworks. They also seized nine hundred thirty-eight pounds of illehal fireworks. Last year, the departments issues thirteen citations. They also seized almost thirteen hundred pounds of fireworks in 2021.
There was also a house fire in the 400 block of N. Peak Street last year which caused a criminal investigation.
The bottom line is more fires July 4, 2022 than 2021, but less enforcement.
Dallas Fire Rescue Sesquicentennial is being celebrated today from 9:00AM until noon. The Dallas Fire Museum will be hosting the event in Fair Park with the Fire Chief and others.
Dallas Fire Rescue was first named the Dallas Fire Department. The department, like most, was a fire suppression service then more than now. Currently, it’s primary focus is prehospital emergency medical transport.
The department also incorporates the all-hazards model meaning it provides many more services.
Those include hazardous materials response, technical rescue, and inspections and investigations.
Dallas Fire Rescue Sesquicentennial Celebrates History
In 2022, Dallas Fire Rescue has 2,000 members and operates fifty-eight fire stations. A fifty-ninth is being readied.
Dallas Fire Rescue covers 385 square miles. They provide service to over 1.3 million residents.
Dallas Fire’s Sesquicentennial website, www.dfr150.com for more information.
Apparel and souvenirs are for sale with proceeds supporting the Dallas Firefighters’ Museum.
Sesquicentennial Reminds Of Dangers Of Fireworks
Dallas Fire Rescue has also reminded the public of the dangers and potential criminal liability of using fireworks.
Dallas Fire Rescue is warning citizens of the potential for injury. They are working to keep illegal fireworks off the streets.
Fireworks are illegal in the city limits and up to 5,000 feet outside of them. They are also extremely dangerous, can result in serious bodily injury and significant property loss.
Fireworks 2022 prohibitions are back in effect. Dallas Fire Rescue is warning citizens of the potential for injury. They are working to keep illegal fireworks off the streets.
Fireworks are illegal in the city limits and up to 5,000 feet outside of them. They are also extremely dangerous, can result in serious bodily injury and significant property loss.
Fireworks 2022
As in years past, city staff say anyone in possession of, or using, fireworks will face penalties. Those include having them confiscated and citations. Fines can be up to $2,000.
In 2020, DFR and DPD together confiscated almost a half ton of fireworks (900 pounds). they issued only eleven citations.
This time the victim was LaDamonyon Dewayne Hall and it comes as the Supreme Court says a lawsuit can proceed against the City of Dallas in the death of Tony Timpa, by Officer Dustin Dillard.
LaDamonyon Dewayne Hall Situation
In late May, forty-seven year old Hall died after she was handcuffed and restrained by Dallas police officers and Dallas Fire-Rescue officials in East Dallas.
LaDamonyon Hall’s autoposy is pending, but in video released by Dallas police it shows responders pinning LaDamonyon Hall similar to the Timpa case.
Police officers responded to a 911 call for a disturbance near a car lot.
Hall can be seen in the video in various levels of responsiveness – sometimes answering officer questions, sometimes answering unintelligibly.
Per police, Hall became agitated, stood up, yelled at the first responders, and started removing her clothes.
Officers pinned her to the ground where she continued to “thrash about and scream” per Deputy Chief Terrence Rhodes, but Hall can be heard saying “you’re hurting me.”
She was put on a stretcher and into an ambulance. On the way to the hospital, Hall “became quiet and started to lose vital signs,” Rhodes said.
She is handcuffed and a hood is placed over her face. She appears unresponsive just before arriving at the hospital.
Dallas police have a General Order stating that video in these cases must be released within seventy-two hours, but police leadership waited nearly two weeks to do so.
Hall was transported to Baylor University Medical Center unconscious, unresponsive, and in cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead at 2:05PM.
LaDamonyon Dewayne Hall Video
Video of the interaction can be seen here:
Dallas police are investigating the incident, but in numerous previous incidents, police are always cleared of charges despite starting an incident with a person breathing on their own and ending up dead.
Dallas Fire Rescue officials say they are also looking into the incident.
Jerry Jones hospitalized after a car wreck Wednesday night.
Per team sources the Dallas Cowboys owner and General Manager was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure, but he was later released.
The motor vehicle collision reportedly happened around 8:00 PM in the area of Wolf and Harry Hines Boulevard in Dallas. Dallas police have not confirmed whether or not Jones was a driver or that he was transported to Parkland Hospital.
Jerry Jones Hospitalized, Mixed Reports On Condition Despite Release
Dallas Police have not confirmed Jones was a driver, but there is one report that he was and may have been intoxicated.
Police said it is not their practice to give the names of people involved in collisions unless there is a fatality and declined to confirm Jones was a participant.
The Dallas football franchise has a long history of players and staff driving under the influence.
In 2021, Cowboys safety Damontae Kazee was arrested for DUI.
Kazee was pulled over for a traffic violation in The Colony. Colony Police noticed physical signs that Kazee had been drinking. After being questioned he told the officer that he had consumed alcohol earlier in the evening.
Kazee was then detained after failing a field sobriety test, and his DWI charge is a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense. The 28-year-old posted a $2,500 bond on Tuesday and was released from The Colony Municipal Jail at 12:34 PM.
The City of Dallas has multiple questions to answer about the Dallas 911 Dispatch Center after a deaf woman, Zarea Dixon, was found dead in her home when police officers took over an hour to respond to her call for help.
In a separate incident it took more than six minutes to respond to an apartment fire in North Dallas.
Dixon called 911 to report her boyfriend had broken into her apartment along South Polk Street and attacked her with a knife.
An interpreter with Sorensen Translation Services relayed that Dixon had been attacked stating her “ex-boyfriend broke into her house, beat her up and tried to stab her with a knife.”
Dixon provided the suspect’s name, description and date of birth to the police through the translator. She also said he had left her home.
Dixon “declined an ambulance but stated she ‘needed the police,'” according to the affidavit.
In addition to the non response to this woman, Dallas Police has not responded to multiple other incidents.
Sources within the police department told Other Side Dallas that police planned to arrest a black led counter protest should it have occured as a threat to public safety, but police did nothing about the interruption to the school day by white parents.
In addition, Dallas Fire Rescue has launched an internal investigation into why it took six minutes to send apparatus to the Forest Hill Apartment firte that becamse a three alarm event.
Sixty to seventy firefighters responded and saw flames coming from the second floor of the three-story apartment building upon arrival.
The fire quickly spread to the third floor and then into the attic space and roof of the building requiring the additional alarms by Dallas Fire Rescue.
Dallas Fire Station 29 is approximately one mile away or roughly three minutes.
In comments to the media, Dallas Fire Fighters Association President Jim McDade said, “When the first companies got there — there was an enormous amount of fire, probably due to a delay in response,” McDade said.
There were no deaths or injuries, but more than twenty apartments were destroyed and more than one hundred residents displaced.
Dallas Fire Rescue units were dispatched to a 9-1-1 call for a structure fire at a home. The fire in 1600 block of West Illinois Avenue, in Southwest Dallas, was quickly extinguished by responding companies who observed light smoke coming from the one-story residence.
Upon making entry through the back of the home, they were able to find heavy fire in a rear bedroom. Having already deployed handlines, first-in teams initiated a fire attack and quickly extinguished the flames.
Once smoke cleared, responders discovered the burned and deceased body of an unidentified man lying in the bed. Per DFR procedure, notifications were made to law enforcement, as well as the medical examiner, so the scene could be processed, and the official investigation into the victim’s cause of death could ensue.
In July a reported house fire at 400 N Peak revealed a deceased resident also at what police described as a known drug house.
Fire In 1600 Block Of West Illinois Avenue – Single Victim
There were no other injuries reported as a result of the fire.
A dog that was at the home (though uninjured) was taken into custody by Dallas Animal Services.
According to investigators, there are no preliminary indications that the fire was suspicious in nature; however, the cause of the fire will be listed as undetermined until the Medical Examiner has made a final ruling on the victim’s cause of death.
Limo Liberal Al Franken does Dallas mask free at the Majestic Theatre despite demanding proof of negative COVID19 test or vaccination card.
The Majestic which is celebrating one hundred years open did not comment about why they were not enforcing the mask mandate other than to lay blame on former Senator Franken who resigned his United States Senate seat over sexual harassment allegations.
City officials claimed they could not enforce county mandates and were not subject to them per Jason Evans of Dallas Fire Rescue.
Limo Liberal Al Franken Does Dallas Mask Free
Several participants noted that at least forty percent of the crowd was mask free and there were several people coughing enough that they “belonged” in an ICU for breathing trouble.
Prior to the show, several emails when out from Franken’s promotion team stating masks would be needed for entry along with vaccination cards or proof of negative test, but no checks occurred at the door.
It is unclear if Franken will offer refunds to those unable to attend the show due to the lack of follow through on maintaining a clean environment.
Dallas Fire Rescue remains optimistic about their outcomes. The families ask for privacy during this time and the identities of those injured will not be released.
Dallas Fire Rescue, Dallas Police Department, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and Atmos are collaborating on the continuing investigation; the cause of the explosion remains unknown.
Three Dallas Firefighters Remain Critical, Community Rebuilding
The respite center in the Tommie M. Allen Recreation Center was demobilized Wednesday evening.
Displaced residents are currently being offered shelter at two hotels where Dallas’ Office of Emergency Management has staff on site.
Dallas Animal Services is relocating pets displaced by the explosion to shelter with their owners and providing crates, food and toys as needed. OEM staff is investigating other longer-term interim housing options if necessary, and has also reached out to Dallas ISD to seek transportation and academic accommodation for displaced students.
In-kind donations of clothing and comfort items are not needed nor accepted at this time.
