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FORT WORTH, Texas — Crews responded to a large grass fire Wednesday afternoon in northwest Tarrant County.

The fire could be seen burning in a field near West Bonds Ranch Road and North Saginaw Boulevard, which is in an area near Fort Worth, Saginaw and Haslet along U.S. 287.

As of 8:20 p.m. Wednesday, the fire is 100% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. The fire burned an estimated 184 acres.

The fire started between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., according to Tarrant County Fire Marshall Randy Renois. He said a construction company currently doing underground cabling was cutting some rebar up, which caused sparks and the beginning of the fire. Once the wind shifted, it split the fire two ways and caused the fire to spread both northeast and northwest.

"We got people out here as quick as we could," Renois said. "I can't tell you how many fire trucks, brush trucks and personnel we have, but it's more than a handful. We have a bunch."

Renois said about six to seven homes had to be evacuated by the Gilmore Creen area.

Tom Le, a resident of 15 years in the area, told WFAA the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office asked him and his neighbors to evacuate.

"It was spreading quick," Le said. "It was just a big cloud of white smoke and black smoke, you couldn’t see nothing down the road. You never realize it’s that close to you."

"Shortly after we asked them to leave, it was all clear," Renois said. "So it was just a precaution because the fire jumped Peden Road just a little bit. Maybe a third of an acre? They put it out really quick."

Le said he was relieved. He told WFAA it was a wake-up call to the dangers of fire season.

"I need to have a better plan on what to pack," Le said. "You never know what’s gonna happen, especially nowadays, everything’s so dry."

Adam Turner of the Texas A&M Forest Service said his team requested assistance for the fire.

As of Wednesday night, Turner said he did not know of any structures damaged by the fire.

"There have been multiple fire departments coming in and out," Turner said. "Here in Tarrant County, there are lots of fire departments to come around and most of them are here to help."

Turner also said the high heat impacts the firefighters' ability to take care of the fire and requires many first responders to take breaks while working to stop it.

"It makes it more difficult," Turner said. "We can't work for as long without having to take breaks and cool off. All of that heat that's affecting us is also affecting all of this grass and brush that's out there."

Alert: Texas A&M Forest Service is responding to a request for assistance in Tarrant County on the #BondFire. The fire is an estimated 100 acres and 0% contained. Forward progression has slowed but is not stopped. #txfire pic.twitter.com/QGrKX9RVLh

— Incident Information - Texas A&M Forest Service (@AllHazardsTFS) July 19, 2023

Turner said, with it being the beginning of "fire season," many departments are ready to respond quickly.

"This is the normal period of time that we call fire season here in North Texas," Turner said. "Late end of July moving into August and September. We can now comfortably say that we're in fire season here in North Texas. It's something we need to be paying attention to."

"When you have such a large area burning like we do, we can't put it all out," Turner also said. "Even if we have a large body of water nearby, that's a ton of water to try and put out 100 acres of actively burning material. We're going to put out as much material as we can around the edge of it."

Grass fire producing heavy smoke in northwest Tarrant County

DELAVAN, Wis., Feb. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium, a nationwide distributor of fiber optic network materials, has announced the addition of a Texas Warehouse to their portfolio. Millennium's entrance to the Dallas-Fort Worth marketplace is a strategic move to bring telecommunications materials closer to their clients, resulting in faster distribution to the region. Millennium's Texas location will be focused on helping Contractors and Broadband providers alike with their materials needed to deploy broadband networks.

In a statement, James Kyle, Founder and CEO of Millennium stated: "Our growth comes from understanding our clients' needs and catering our solutions to help them make faster decisions and deploy broadband systems more efficiently. We've seen businesses and communities in Texas continue to expand, requiring faster speeds and a more reliable Internet. Millennium has been supporting broadband construction efforts in the Region for education, securing and communicating in the oil fields, deploying 5G and fiber to the home. The time is right to bring the products and services closer to the contractors and network providers we are serving by making additional investments into the Dallas/Fort Worth area."

Millennium will continue to help companies from our new Texas facility by performing feasibility studies, network design, material supply, asset management and flexible financing options. By positioning the warehouse in North Texas we can effectively service the majority of the State and into Oklahoma and New Mexico with one day service.

Millennium's Texas location is located in the Greater Dallas/Fort Worth area of 2629 Blue Mound Road W, Haslet, TX 76052 where they offer a host of inventory solutions and services with the materials they need to be successful. They offer the following:

For further information regarding Millennium, contact [email protected]

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HASLET, Texas — Supply chain crisis.

Those three words have wiggled their way into so many conversations across the nation as Americans stare at inflation, labor shortages and product shortages, with almost a month to go until Christmas.

For weeks, we've seen images of backlogged ports on the West Coast.

Things have improved, but 71 container ships were anchored offshore outside Los Angeles and Long Beach ports just Friday, waiting to unload.

And North Texas?

Well, our region plays a significant role in getting those containers where they need to go.

Just north of Fort Worth, in the small town of Haslet, you'll find the BNSF Alliance Intermodal Facility.

It's part of the Alliance Global Logistics Hub, including the Fort Worth Alliance Airport, the FedEx Southwest Regional Sort Hub, and Amazon Air’s newest regional air hub, among 500-plus other companies in residence.

Running 24/7, BNSF receives freight at the facility and then offloads it for customers to drive it to their respective warehouses.

Customers using the facility are DHL/Excel, FedEx JC Penney, Michaels, Ryder Integrated Logistics, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, and Walmart, to name a few.

Twenty-three cranes run day and night throughout the facility, placing containers onto chassis, which are then parked in any of the facility's 6,607 parking spaces.

There's also room on the property to stack more than 600 containers if spaces fill up. BNSF has also juiced up its operations to alleviate shipping backlogs by deploying more than 1,000 locomotives and hundreds of rail cars.

However, John Gabriel, BNSF's Vice President of Operations for the southern sector, says the facility is not at capacity despite issues on the West Coast.

"We're well resourced to handle more than we currently are," Gabriel said.

The headache for BNSF (and ultimately consumers too) isn't moving freight in, but waiting for companies to come to pick it up.

Fifteen hundred containers come in and out of the facility daily, Gabriel said.

Before the West Coast mess, Gabriel says it would take 24 hours or less for a container to get driven out of the facility by a company.

That timeframe is much longer now.

"We've seen that more than double throughout the supply chain crisis to where we've got units that are sitting here, on average, more than two days," Gabriel said.

"We've also got several hundred units right here in Alliance that sat more than a week for a customer to come and take them to a distribution facility."

Gabriel also said that chassis, which are what containers sit on and trucks hook up to haul, aren't being returned to the facility as quickly.

"We've seen those times go from two to three days to more like eight or nine days in the current environment that we're in," Gabriel said.

That fact goes to show that unloading at distribution facilities is also snarling.

The facility was overwhelmed earlier this year in February during Texas' historic winter storm.

Then, BNSF said that container parking was packed and the count was approaching 9,000.

Around 1,200 containers were also ground-stacked.

Gabriel says there are no issues like that right now approaching the holidays.

"Any congestion can be found at an intersection like this where a customer and an entity like us come together," Gabriel said.

So what does Gabriel think about this question: Will things get better?

"We're counting on labor shortages to heal themselves, but we think this is really a demand function and don't see things getting better anytime soon," Gabriel said.

An Amazon warehouse in Texas is more dangerous than working in a psychiatric ward or a prison, leaked documents reveal.

Log books from the Haslet facility in Texas show injuries increasing from 2017 through 2019. Its Incident Rate (IR) - a measure of injury numbers relative to hours worked at a facility - was 8.15 in 2017, 8.72 the following year and last year 9.59.

To put those numbers in perspective a state psychiatric hospital has an IR of 7.4, a prison 7.3 and an aluminium foundry, 8.5. The report showed that the huge million-square-foot Amazon warehouse in Texas had a greater IR than all three.

In simpler terms around one in ten of the employees at the unit have been injured to the extent it has required reporting to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. These are not just scraped knees, the injuries have to meet a level that requires 'medical treatment beyond first aid,' Gizmodo reported.

A woman working the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, where other employees have criticized conditions at the warehouse

Amazon's Haslet facility in Texas which averaged an Incident Rate of 8.82 in the last three years according to leaked dossiers from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Amazon previously told the news site that the reason for its high rating was because it took 'an aggressive stance on recording injuries no matter how big or small.'

However, this would not explain why injuries at Haslet have been rising annually.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been accused of working staff too hard particularly in the run-up to the winter holiday season

The infamous 'peak season' in the run-up to the winter holidays took up a third of all injuries at the Texas facility.

The majority of these were recorded as sprains and bruises, but other injuries included heat stress, electric shocks, hernias, crushed hands and feet, concussions, fractures and lacerations.

It comes as employees at a New York facility called JFK8, on Staten Island claimed Amazon bosses 'care more about robots than about the employees'.

Jimpat Lacewell, who started working at Amazon in Staten Island in November, quit after three days because it reminded him of prison.

He also said CEO and founder Jeff Bezos could not finish a shift at the warehouse if he took part in the Undercover Boss reality TV show.

Lacewell told the Guardian: 'I would rather go back to a state correctional facility and work for 18 cents an hour than do that job. I'm sure Mr Bezos couldn't do a full shift at that place as an undercover boss.'

Rita Cummings, who works as a sorter on the outbound ship dock in three 12-hour shifts every week, has to scan a 1,800 Amazon packages an hour, which works out at around 30 every minute.

A woman working at a packing station in Staten Island. Some employees have complained of having their productivity constantly monitored by computers

She claimed a manager asked if she was 'sure you can't see?' and tried to place her in unsuitable job tasks, despite her visual impairment disability meaning she can only perform certain roles.

She told the Guardian: 'I had a manager ask me: are you sure you can't see?

'There are days I say I'm just at the mercy of God. There has been no real change. There are still injuries. They were saying the report [into safety] is not accurate, but it's just a way for them to avoid responsibility.'

Some warehouse workers complained of a lack of safety in that some violations were 'brushed aside'.

An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement: 'Like most companies, we have performance expectations for every Amazonian and we measure actual performance against those expectations.'

And on safety, the company said: 'Any effort to paint our workplaces as unsafe based on the number of injury recordings is misleading given the size of our workforce.

'While many companies under-record safety incidents in order to keep their rates low, Amazon does the opposite – we take an aggressive stance on recording injuries no matter how big or small.

The warehouse, which opened in 2018, sits at the corner of Gulf and Bloomfield Avenues inside the Matrix Global Logistics Park in Staten Island, New York

'We believe so strongly in the environment provided for fulfillment center employees, including our safety culture, that we offer public tours where anyone can come see for themselves one of our sites and its working conditions first-hand.'

Last August, Bezos was slammed on social media for throwing a multi-million dollar concert for certain head office employees not long after warehouse workers went on strike over pay and conditions.

He was spotted partying with celebrities such as Katy Perry and Lil Nas X backstage at Amazon's Post-Prime Day concert for employees in Seattle.

From a Google Maps view, the landscape around Haslet looks like a printed circuit board, just waiting for microchips to fill in the blank spots.

Tri Pointe Homes and M/I Homes will soon add a major chip to that circuit board. The two builders announced a joint venture that will plug in 900 new homes near Haslet.

Called LaPrelle, the planned community will be built on 372 acres west of Haslet. The space is there.

This is significant given the growth and development of communities north and northwest of Fort Worth. LaPrelle will be near Alliance Airport, BNSF Railway Co., an Amazon Fulfillment Center, and several distribution warehouses.

The additional housing inventory should come in handy. Haslet’s city limits occupy two counties — Tarrant and Denton. According to the MetroTex Association of Realtors, Tarrant had only 0.6 months of inventory and had 0.5. The city has a definitive strategic plan for growth.

Despite its population (Census estimate in 2019 was 1,923), Haslet has a healthy home value index. According to Zillow, the typical value of homes in Haslet is $567,296. Home values have gone up 25.2 percent in the past year. The average home value in Denton County is $440,350 and Tarrant County $345,000.

Is it spring yet? From the schizy weather we’ve had in North Texas this year, you might not know it. But in just a couple of weeks, we’ll be celebrating both Easter (April 17) and Passover (April 15).

Just in time, we’ve rounded up an assortment of holiday-inspired décor, gifts, and treats guaranteed to make this year’s festivities both stylish and delicious.

Butterfly Dessert Plates

A chic finale to your holiday meal. These porcelain plates from designer Christian Lacroix are hand-decorated with 24-karet gold and platinum.

Pastel Tiny Taper Candles

Add a touch of spring to your holiday table. The set of 12 includes three of each pretty pastel hue.

Bunny Hutch Pillows

This cheery fabric from Groundworks by Lee Jofa features artist Hunt Slonen’s signature bunnies.

Floral Vase

We found this beauty on MIHO, known for its “unexpected things.” Handmade in Italy, this silicone vase is bursting with colorful blooms.

Glazed Seder Plate

An elegant addition to your Seder table. This flower-shaped platter doubles as a cake plate.

Cabbage Garden Bunny Bowl

Mackenzie-Childs’ whimsical ceramic bowl is handcrafted at the company’s studio, located on a 65-acre former dairy farm in Aurora, N.Y.

Printed Matzah Tray

The handiwork of Israeli designer Yair Emanuel, this wooden box features a multi-hued floral motive.

Express Egg Cooker

A go-to for holiday brunches. Dash’s sunny yellow egg cooker prepares up to seven eggs in an instant.

Matzah Pot Holder and Oven Mitt Set

We can’t think of a more fun way to celebrate holiday hostesses.

Flower Mini Cakes

These yummy buttercream cupcakes from We Take the Cake come wrapped in green tulip paper.

Marzipan Black & White Cookies

The beloved black-and-white cookie gets a holiday makeover.

Easter Sugar Cookie Kit

Chef Daniel Boulud’s DIY kit includes brown sugar cookie dough, egg and bunny-shaped cookie cutters, and colorful royal icing.

Passover Sampler Box

A sweet treat from NYC’s renowned Magnolia Bakery. Each box includes a dozen assorted macaroons and two pieces of chocolate Matzo Crunch.

Dark Chocolate Ungapotchkies

The ultimate nosh from The Matzo Project. These bubbe-approved treats are a decadent mix of chocolate, salted peanuts, toasted rice, toffee, and matzo. (And in case you’re wondering, Ungapatchka is a Yiddish word used to describe something ridiculously over-the-top.)