BUSY WEDNESDAY FOR BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION FIREFIGHTERS
Firefighters in Bryan and College Station had no shortage of work Wednesday, responding to five total fires through the day.
(courtesy College Station Fire Dept.)
In Bryan, a multi-vehicle crash around 11 a.m. closed Highway 21 at Wallis Road, near the Coulter Field airport, for several hours. Bryan police officers reported the crash caused both a pickup and a semi-truck to go up in flames.
In College Station, first responders were called to an 18-wheeler hauling carbonated beverages, which caught fire shortly after noon. The fire blocked northbound traffic on Highway 6 north of Harvey Road.
Firefighters also responded to a small fire inside a research building on the Texas A&M campus just after 1:30 p.m. According to reports, a conveyor belt caught fire in the Electron Food Beam Research Building. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and cleared smoke from the building.
College Station firefighters were also called out to a pair of oven fires, one at a home on Rugen Lane on the south end of Edelweiss Park, and the other at the Pearl Apartments west of Oaks Parks.
No one was reported injured in any of the incidents.