Overview
- A grass fire that ignited on Saturday, Aug. 29 burned about 10 acres, involved two structures and was reported fully extinguished the following Monday with no injuries.
- Multiple municipal and volunteer departments responded under mutual aid with engines, tankers, brush units and an excavator used overnight to expose and extinguish hot spots.
- The Dallas County Fire Marshal says the blaze began with illegal burning at an unpermitted dumping site where tires, RVs and construction debris burned, and citations or fines are pending.
- Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price placed at least 13 landowners on 30-day notice to clean their properties while the county and state weigh cleanup costs estimated by regulators.
- Local activists delivered the proposed Ken Wright Infrastructure Bond to commissioners seeking roughly $8 million to build water and sewer lines for Sand Branch, a community that lacks municipal service and whose residents face limited options for relocation.