Flower Mound firefighters help battle wildfires
Fire Departments come together to help a common cause. The Flower Mound Fire Department is among several area departments who have headed west to help battle the wildfires in Montague, Wise and surrounding counties. Four members of Flower Mound's department have spent the last two days in various towns of Montague County, northwest of Denton County, battling a grass fire that has claimed lives and destroyed thousands of acres, as of Friday afternoon. Flower Mound Fire Chief Eric Metzger said 60 members of his department volunteered to go. "Everyone was concerned and wanted to go," Metzger said. "It's just like anyone else in the fire service, they all wanted to help." Flower Mound sent two apparatus operators, a captain and another firefighter to the area on a brush truck and a water tender. Local firefighters, including those from the Lewisville, Carrollton and Lake Cities departments, met in Denton on Thursday afternoon before heading to the Texas Forest ...