Newton County, Tx - Firefighters worked for about 90 minutes to extinguish a fire at an oil well site in northeast Newton County on Wednesday afternoon. It began at about
Burkeville firefighters had a rather unpleasant fire to deal with on Monday. Fire Chief Charles Duckworth said it was a large pile of chicken manure that was smoldering and smoking.
Firefighters were busy Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning in north Newton County as they handled a wildfire. Burkeville Fire Chief Charles Duckworth says it was the same fire that
A Tennessee man was seriously injured in a late Sunday morning motorcycle crash in Newton County. It happened at about 10:30 on Highway 87, just south of Recreational Road 255,