90-Day Burn Ban Issued For Hopkins County
No Outdoor Burning — Not Even In Covered Barrel — Allowed At This Time Hopkins County Commissioners Court Monday morning, at the request of Hopkins County Fire Marshal Andy Endsley, issued a burn ban for Hopkins County. The ban is effective as of today, July 11, 2022, and will remain in effect for 90 days, unless Texas Forest Service or the county judge and fire marshal determine drought conditions no loner exist. Hopkins County Fire...
Sulphur Bluff Man Accused Of Discharging Firearm Toward Firefighters, Damaging School Scoreboard
A 38-year-old Sulphur Bluff man is accused of discharging a firearm toward firefighters and damaging a school scoreboard, according to arrest reports. Khary Rashann Hadnot Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office deputies and investigators arrived at the man’s FM 71 residence Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 26, 2022, to serve warrants issued following investigation of the incident, alleged to have occurred around 4:20 p.m. Jan. 17. The...
Firefighters Battle Tate Street House Fire Monday
Local firefighters were battling a Tate Street house fire Monday. No injures were reported and occupants accounted for, but the local chapter of the Red Cross was contacted to respond at the location to assist. The blaze was reported after 9 a.m. Jan. 3, 2022, in the 400 block of Tate Street, just behind Wesley United Methodist Church. Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County firefighters responded, along with police, to what was reported...
Section Of I-30 West Of Franklin-Hopkins County Line Shut Down Due To Truck Fire
A section of Interstate 30 west was shut down for a short while Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, due to a truck fire. Motorists traveling west from Franklin into Hopkins County were warned to be prepared for traffic delays or find an alternate route travel. Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze spreading in a truck and trailer reportedly hauling fertilizer. Hopkins County, Pickton-Pine Forest, Saltillo, Brinker and Mount Vernon...
County Road 4724 House Heavily Damaged By Blaze
A County Road 4724 residence was heavily damaged by a blaze Sunday night. A resident was home, but managed to escape without injury. A neighbor reported seeing smoke through his window around 10 p.m. Nov. 21 a large amount of flames down the road from his CR 4724 residence and contacted neighbors to see if it was a controlled burn or from a residence. The owner, who lives just down from the structure, looked, saw the rent house on...
Hopkins County VFDs Receive 2 Additional Air Cylinders
All of the county’s volunteer fire departments received 2 SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) cylinders Monday morning to assist them in their fire respond duties. Hopkins County Commissioners Court and Fire Marshal Andy Endsley show appreciation to VFDs announce distribution of 2 additional cylinders per volunteer fire department. This marks the second year in a row the VFDs have received air cylinders from Hopkins...
City, County Fire Departments, EMS Partnering To Apply For Regional Communications Grant
An interlocal agreement approved this week by Hopkins County Commissioners Court signaled the start of a partnership among city and county firefighters and the local EMS service, formed to go after a regional communications grant. Hopkins County Fire Marshal Andy Endsley said while the interlocal agreement is between the City of Sulphur Springs Fire Department, Hopkins County Fire Department and Hopkins County EMS, the regional...
20 Years Later, Hopkins County Remembers Emergency Service Personnel Killed In 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
For the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, local emergency responders held a service to honor the emergency responders who were killed Sept. 11, 2001, while responding to offer aid to those in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Hopkins County and Sulphur Springs Fire Departments, Hopkins County Emergency Medical Services personnel, Fire In Texas recruits, Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office,...
County Road 2341 Home Destroyed By Blaze
A County Road 2341 home was destroyed by a blaze Thursday morning. No injuries were reported to have resulted from the fire. The cause of the blaze had yet to be determined early Thursday afternoon., according to fire reports. Hopkins County, Brinker, Como, Pickton-Pine Forest and Arbala firefighters were dispatched to the CR 2341 address, just south of Interstate 30 around 10:15 a..m. Aug. 19, 2021, to the reported structure fire....
Officials Propose 4-Cent Reduction in County Tax Rate
Hopkins County Tax Assessor/Collect Debbie Pogue Mitchell Friday proposed setting the county tax rate at $0.584035 per $100 property valuation, a 4-cent tax reduction. Mitchell explained that the Comptroller requires that two rates be considered in establishing a county tax rate and made public: a no-new-revenue tax rate, the amount needed to raise the same amount of property tax revenue from the same properties in both the 2020 tax...
