Fires & Burns Archives

Do Texas Landlords Have to Install Smoke Detectors?

Posted on April 1, 2024April 2, 2024

Texas law requires landlords to install smoke detectors in rental properties. The specific requirements are in the Texas Property Code, Chapter 92, which establishes guidelines for residential tenancies. When landlords fail to comply with the law, tenants can suffer severe physical, mental, and financial harm – and even death. If the lack of a smoke […]

How Often Are Construction Workers Electrocuted?

Posted on January 17, 2024January 17, 2024

How often are construction workers electrocuted? The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reported that construction workers are one of the top professions to experience accidental death by electrocution. Their data comes from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which investigated the number of electrical fatalities among contract […]

What to do After Getting Burned

Posted on August 5, 2020July 11, 2022

Although skin regenerates every 27 days, serious burns can leave lifelong effects. If you have been burned in an accident, at work, or on someone’s property, follow these steps to protect your health and future claim: Know Your Burn If you’ve suffered from a burn, it’s important to know the grade of your injury. The […]

Significant costs associated with severe burn injuries

Posted on June 17, 2020July 11, 2022

Burns are common injuries. Many Texans have suffered sunburns from spending too much time outdoors on warm, clear days. Others have suffered inadvertent singes when they have touched hot kitchen items. There are many ways that individuals can suffer burn injuries, and while most heal on their own, some burns are significant and life-threatening. Burns […]

Fourth-degree burns will change your life

Posted on December 30, 2019July 11, 2022

Touching a hot dish or sticking your hands under scalding water can make you recoil in pain. You may end up with a red mark where your skin contacted the heat, but in a day or two, the pain subsides. A small scar may remain, but you may soon forget where the scar came from. […]

Going home from the hospital after suffering burn injuries

Posted on September 19, 2019July 11, 2022

Suffering severe burns in a fire or explosion results in a drastic change in the life of burn victims and the lives of their loved ones, perhaps for years into the future. Depending on the extent of injuries, serious burns commonly involve weeks or months in the hospital, perhaps substantially longer for the most severe […]

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills Local Family

Posted on June 4, 2019July 11, 2022

The personal injury lawyers at the Wyatt Law Firm extend our sincerest condolences to the Cavazos family. We are so sorry to hear of the sudden loss of Mr. Cavazos and his two daughters, found dead in their home Monday evening. A police and fire investigation uncovered that a gasoline-powered generator had been in use in […]

Fire displaces five San Antonio apartment residents

Posted on April 12, 2019July 11, 2022

On April 12, 2019, the Personal Injury Lawyers at the Wyatt Law Firm discovered that five people at the Newcome Park Apartments were displaced from their home as a result of a fire that occurred overnight on April 12, 2019. The Personal Injury Lawyers and Carbon Monoxide Lawyers at the Wyatt Law Firm were informed […]

SAFD warns of space heater safety to prevent house fires

Posted on February 4, 2019July 11, 2022

The personal injury lawyers at the Wyatt Law Firm became aware that within the past week, San Antonio Fire Department responded to numerous calls for house fires which causes were directly related to space heaters. Starting on January 20, 2019, a woman and her two pets were evacuated from a house fire when witnesses called […]

Workers seriously injured in Midland pipeline explosions

Posted on August 2, 2018July 11, 2022

A series of three natural gas pipeline explosions injured four pipeline employees and a volunteer firefighter at 11:30 am on Wednesday, August 1. The pipeline blasts happened on Farm-to-Market Road 1379, about twenty miles southeast of Midland. The first of the explosions started a fire. The pipeline workers and the firefighter had managed to quell […]