The fire academy for kids meets for three sessions at the Houston Fire Department. Students range in age from eight to 13. Houston Fire Chief Jonathan Blankenship says the camp is not only fun, but ...

Fire Away January 24, 2002 4:00AM Fire Away Sprinkle it on: Your story about the Houston Fire Department was very good [" Riding Short," by John Suval, January 10]!

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A cadet died Thursday afternoon after collapsing at a Houston Fire Department training center. The cadet, 32-year-old Steven Whitfield II joined the cadet class in October of ...

Milton C. Alford, who in the 1950s was among the first Black firefighters to join the Houston Fire Department, died Tuesday. He was 97. In 1955, Alford and nine other Black volunteer firefighters ...