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The Dallas Fire-Rescue Department serves approximately 1.6 million people within the City of Dallas, Texas. DFRD is organized into 2 divisions, with 10 battalions, and 59 fire stations for each geographic area of the city. Dallas Fire-Rescue faces some challenges within their district.
Downtown Dallas as seen from Lake Cliff Park.. Oak Cliff is an area of Dallas, Texas, United States that was formerly a separate town in Dallas County; established in 1886 and annexed by Dallas in 1903, Oak Cliff has retained a distinct neighborhood identity as one of Dallas' older established neighborhoods.
In October 2018, Dallas made history when it became the first Texas city to get state recognition for its Oak Lawn LGBT neighborhood. [18] There is a large concentration of Hispanic owned businesses, restaurants, grocery stores, nightclubs, and retail establishments on the Maple Avenue corridor between the Inwood Road and the North Dallas Tollway.
Redbird is the principal area and is bounded by Ledbetter/Loop 12 to the north, Wheatland to the south, I-35E/R.L. Thornton Freeway to the east, and Cockrell Hill Road to the west. The Golf Club of Dallas (formerly the Oak Cliff Country Club) lies in the heart of the Redbird community along with Boulder Park.
The recorded history of the area that would become West Dallas begins in the 1840s, when the Republic of Texas offered up to 640 acres of land to homesteaders in North Texas. [ 3 ] The town of Eagle Ford , a significant community in the early history of West Dallas, was established as a farm in 1844 by Enoch Horton at the site of ford in the ...
Glenn Heights is a city in Dallas and Ellis counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 11,278 at the 2010 census , [ 4 ] and 15,819 in 2020. [ 5 ]
The fire in the Texas Historic Landmark, a Victorian-style red brick church built in 1890, was reported about 6:30 p.m. Friday, and contained about three hours later, firefighters said.
Fairview is a town in Collin County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2017 census, the town population was 8,950. [5] The estimated population in 2018 was 9,092. [6] The town is adjacent to the 289-acre (1.17 km 2) Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary.