Industrial Scientific has expanded its Radius® BZ1 Area Monitor to include gamma radiation detection, enhancing safety for fire and hazmat teams.

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Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp. will showcase its latest fire apparatus at FDIC International from April 23-25, 2026.

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PHOTOS: Law enforcement responded to a reported blowout at an oil well drill site in rural southern Nacogdoches County.

According to the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office, the fire was reported before midnight Tuesday in the 15000 block of Farm-to-Market Road 226, north of Etoile.

Around 11:17 p.m. Monday, law enforcement said there were multiple reports of a loud explosion. A KTRE viewer’s drone could spot the flames glowing in the sky from 20 miles away in the city of Nacogdoches.

Multiple agencies responded to the scene, including the Texas Division of Emergency Management, Texas Dept. of Public Safety, the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office, Etoile Volunteer Fire Dept., Nacogdoches Fire Depart., and multiple other fire crews.

“There is currently no danger to local residents from the fire, and air quality in the area is being monitored as well,” said Kevin Meyer, the incident public information officer from the City of Nacogdoches.

Sheriff’s deputies met with workers at the oil well who evacuated after the fire. No injuries were reported. “Deputies met with workers at the oil well site who had evacuated from the scene with no injuries reported,” the sheriff’s office said.

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When wildland firefighters are on prescribed fires, they’re breathing the same smoke and facing many of the same hazards found on wildfires, but they don’t get the same hazard pay. That could soon change.

Resolving that disparity has been a longstanding demand of wildland firefighters. Last week, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management proposed to do just that, and acknowledged the real dangers of prescribed fire.

“Prescribed fire duties expose employees to open flame, radiant and convective heat, smoke, unstable terrain, fire-weakened trees, and other physical, chemical, and biological hazards during ignition and patrol phases,” the recent Federal Register notice read. “Safety practices and Personal Protection Equipment…reduce—but cannot eliminate—these risks.”

“The hazards of a prescribed fire are very similar to the hazards of a suppression fire,” said Max Alonzo, secretary-treasurer of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union that represents many federal wildland firefighters and has advocated for this change.

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PHOTOS: Fire crews from multiple towns battled a fast-moving overnight fire that damaged three homes in Ridgefield Park. The fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in the rear of a home on Brinkerhoff Street and quickly spread to two neighboring houses, according to fire officials.

Flames fully engulfed portions of the homes, and a vehicle in a driveway was also destroyed as the fire intensified. All of the residents inside the homes were able to get out safely, the fire chief said.

Several firefighters suffered minor injuries during the response. They are expected to be OK. Assistant Fire Chief Michael Alberque said crews faced challenges as the fire spread from one building to multiple structures.

“When it went into the second and third structure, it becomes an issue,” Alburque said. He said crews had to stretch water supplies from multiple hydrants because of the size of the fire and nearby trees.

By about 5 a.m., the fire appeared to be under control as crews began winding down operations. There was no immediate word on how the fire started.

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