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Mawson said the occupant told fire officials she was home alone when she smelled gas and opened some windows. He said she came home sometime later and did not smell the gas odor and flipped on a light switch, causing the explosion.

Neighbors reported the explosion sounded like a plane crash or like a transformer blew up.

Mawson said the home appears to be a total loss.

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Mawson said the occupant told fire officials she was home alone when she smelled gas and opened some windows. He said she came home sometime later and did not smell the gas odor and flipped on a light switch, causing the explosion.

Neighbors reported the explosion sounded like a plane crash or like a transformer blew up.

Mawson said the home appears to be a total loss.

Officials with the water resource committee said we won’t be headed into Stage 2 Drought Restrictions.

The committee met Monday afternoon, November 6, 2023, to discuss current drought restrictions and the potential triggering for further precautions.

Luckily, the recent rains have put us in an improved position with the combined level of lakes Kickapoo and Arrowhead, now sitting at 54.7%, up a full percent from two weeks ago.

Despite the improvement, city officials still want residents to be mindful of their water usage.

“We hope that we don’t get there,” Daniel Nix, Utilities Operations Manager, said. “We ask the citizens to continue to remain vigilant and watch how they’re using their water going into the late part of the fall and early part of the winter. Obviously, it’s not irrigation season, and so you’ll want to turn your attention to how you’re using water inside your home.”

Nearly all Texas counties, or 99.6%, are populated by the invasive and highly destructive species, one of over 800 invasive species in the Lone Star State.

The data was pooled by eyewitness accounts of hogs, of which there were 2,425 reported sightings. Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Oklahoma round out the top five. While the majority of hogs live in the south, their populations are quickly inching northwards, with multiple sightings in Wisconsin and Vermont.

First introduced by European colonizers in the 1500s, the feral pigs interbred with the Eurasian wild boars introduced in the 1900s for sport and created the tusked hybrid now seen across the U.S.

With no federally approved poison and hunting minimally effective, the pigs' high fertility rates, intelligence, and ability to eat nearly anything have contributed to their exploding population rates.

Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service recently found that a warfarin-based toxicant effectively reduced the feral pig population at 23 sites in 10 Texas counties.

The combined levels for Lakes Arrowhead and Lake Kickapoo have fallen 0.5% to 53.8% this week, according to The City of Wichita Falls.

Recent rain and cooler temperatures have kept levels from falling any further.

Residents in Wichita Falls remain in the Stage 1 Drought Watch.

The Stage 2 Drought Warning will automatically trigger if and when lake levels reach a combined level of 50%.

North Texans can expect plenty of sunshine and mild temperatures for the next week.

That may be good news for holiday shoppers, but bad news for Wichita Falls lakes, which continue to decline.

The combined levels of lakes Arrowhead and Kickapoo dropped 0.3 percent over the past week and now have a combined total of 53.5 percent.

Wichita Falls water customers remain under the Stage 1 Drought Watch water-use restrictions.

If the combined level falls to 50 percent, Stage 2 Drought Warning restrictions will trigger automatically.

Officers with the Wichita Falls Police Department were sent to the area near the 1500 block of Britain Street following a potential shooting incident.

Our crews on the scene said there were potentially two gunshot victims and that the suspects were no longer on the scene. They also said a victim was placed in the back of an ambulance.

UPDATE: According to the WFPD, there are two gunshot victims and both of them are female. The suspect in question reportedly has a connection to one of the victims, according to the WFPD.

Both of the victims were taken to a hospital and WFPD said the injuries could be life threatening. The suspect’s name is Isidro Sifuentes Garicia, but people call him David, according to the WFPD. He reportedly left the scene in a white KIA.

WFPD wants the public to know he may be armed and dangerous. They are also encouraging people to reach out with any information that they have. If you have information, you can call the non-emergency line or crime stoppers.

Early this morning multiple calls were made with reports of hearing gunshots on Rhea Road.

Wichita Falls Police Department arrived on scene and went door to door to find out if anyone had heard or saw anything.

As of now there is one person in custody, this incident is still under investigation.

Police are responding to a gunshot victim near Wichita Falls High School just after noon on December 8, 2023.

Police are responding to the corner of Ave H and Bell Street at what appears to be a multi-family housing unit, according to a reporter on the scene.

The victim has died, according to police scanner traffic and removed the first responder request to this location from CADWEB.

The victim of a fatal shooting that took place near Wichita Falls High School, “Old High” Friday afternoon has been identified by police.

According to Police, the victim was Isidro “David” Sifuentes Garcia, 40, who was a suspect in the shooting of his wife, Lindsey Garcia and her mother, Susan Kimes.

For our Crime of the Week, we are revisiting the drug bust on Central Freeway on Saturday, December 2.

At around 10:00 a.m. the Wichita Falls Police Department made a traffic stop on Central Fwy. and found drugs inside the vehicle.

“One of our officers was running radar out on Central Freeway,” WFPD Sgt. Charlie Eipper said. “He clocked a car do a substantial amount of speed over the speed limit of sixty.”

According to court documents, once the patrol officer had stopped and approached the vehicle, he observed two individuals in the cab of the truck acting nervous and could smell the strong odor of marijuana while speaking with the duo he started noticing suspicious packaging.

“The female told the officer that they had traveled to Colorado and picked up a lot of the workings and the fixings and equipment to take back and deliver to someone else who was going to turn it into vape cartridges,” Sgt. Eipper said.

A search of the truck found empty vape cartridges, flavored liquid used for THC vapes as well as several packaging materials with THC labels used for packaging and distributing marijuana illegally, although the two were not caught with marijuana or THC products the delivery of such a large amount of paraphernalia can come with a hefty fee.

No, there will be no “Throw your battery in Lake Wichita” event on Dec. 31.

“Is this supposed to be funny? Because it’s not funny,” said Lake Wichita Revitalization committee member David Coleman in response to a hoax post that showed up as an event on Facebook.

“Not only is it bogus, it’s just a horrible, horrible idea,” Coleman said. “The lake’s having enough trouble. We don’t need to pollute it with battery acid.”

The post said throwing in the batteries would recharge the power plant at the bottom of the lake. There is no power plant at the bottom of Lake Wichita.

It also contained the logos of the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce and several local businesses and claimed people who tossed in their old batteries would get a discount on new ones.

None of that is true.