Twelve Fires In 24 Hours

Mt Pleasant Firefighters worked a brush fire that got out of control at 2:00 pm Friday at 115 CR 1520. Cookville worked a grass fire at 2:15 pm Friday at 2240 CR 3160. It started after a resident burned trash. Another fire got out of hand on Burton Road on Rickerson Road at 3:00 pm Friday. Another grass fire occurred at 6:30 pm Friday on CR 2315. Someone was burning on 900-block of W. Seventh, and a neighbor called in a complaint of smoke. Someone reported another grass fire at CR 2316 at FM 3417. That came in before 7:30 pm Friday. Saturday afternoon firefighters worked a grass fire at 285 on FM 2348. A brush fire got out of control 45 minutes later at 557 CR 4360. At 2:35, 45 minutes later, firefighters worked a grass fire 8516 FM 127. Tri-Lakes assisted Franklin County with a grass fire at 2:49 pm Saturday. At 4:00 pm First Responders worked a vehicle accident with multiple patients. It occurred when a vehicle crashed into a concrete creek bed. At 6:15 a grass fire happened on I-30 at the 155-mile marker westbound. The last blaze came in at 11:33 Saturday night. It was six miles west of Mt Pleasant on CR 1153 around trailers.