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Clean-up sparks blaze
A mid-day fire destroyed a pair of structures at 195 Oak Ridge near Lake Amon G. Carter on Tuesday.
Bowie Rural Volunteer Fire Department responded to the fire, assisted by Bowie and Sunset Fire Departments. The fire call came in shortly before 1 p.m. on June 30.
Bowie Fire Marshal Doug Page investigated the fire that burned a two-story structure and an adjacent mobile home at the lot.
Page said the fire appears to have started from some burn piles that were behind the building as the lot was being cleaned up.
“Jeff Jones and Judy Clark live next door and were cleaning the lot. They also were reportedly buying half of the large lot. Shane Oney is a part-owner of the structures. One of the piles caught the structure on fire and it spread to the nearby mobile home. No one was living at the property. It was an accidental fire,” said the fire marshal.
Posted around 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 21 – The Montague County Sheriff’s Office is currently evacuating residences in the path of the wildfire in the 1800 block area of Starkey Road. If told you need to leave, please do so immediately. If you don’t live in the area, please stay out of the area to give responders room to work. (Information from the Emergency Communications Team for Montague County)
According to Saint Jo VFD – 11:30 (update) A brush truck and a tender has been requested by every department in the county to the scene of a large grass fire on Starkey Road, which is closed at this time.
Saint Jo Fire Department is assisting Nocona Rural Fire Department on a grass fire on Starkey Road near the Starkey Cemetery. Please avoid the area.
Companies on scene:
Saint Jo: Brush-341, Brush-241, Tender-141
Nocona Rural: Chief-131, Brush-231, Brush, 531, Tender-131.
Nocona City: Chief-130, Brush-130
Montague: Brush-151
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