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Three trucks and 12 firefighters with the Scenic Loop Volunteer Fire Department responded to a fire in the early morning hours Saturday at Pinwah Pines. The fire originated in one house and spread to a house next door. “I was the first on the scene and our main objective was to protect the exposure from getting to the third house until we got more help,” Scenic Loop Fire Chief Donald Marlow said. Livingston Volunteer Fire Department assisted Scenic Loop. “There were two side by side pretty large structures on fire and it got in some groundcover and went about 100 yards down the lakefront, endangering several additional houses,” Livingston Fire Chief Corky Cochran said.Courtesy photo

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By Emily Banks Wooten
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Charges are pending against a local man as the investigation continues into a two-vehicle collision that occurred at 3:46 p.m. Jan. 9 on the Hwy. 190 causeway in Onalaska.

A 2020 Hyundai Elantra driven by Kyle Mitchell Farris, 29 of Livingston, was traveling westbound and a 2010 Lexus GX driven by Pauline Dunlap Adams, 82 of Onalaska, was traveling eastbound. According to the accident report filed by Officer Cotye Lowrie of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Farris’ vehicle traveled into oncoming traffic, striking Adams’ vehicle.

Farris was air-lifted to a hospital in Conroe and Adams was air-lifted to a hospital in The Woodlands, both with incapacitating injuries.

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Officers investigate the scene of a train/pedestrian accident that occurred downtown Thursday resulting in the death of a local man. Photo by Keitha Swann

By Emily Banks Wooten
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A local man has died from injuries he sustained in a train/pedestrian accident that occurred downtown Thursday afternoon.

The Livingston Police Department received a call at 4:04 p.m. Thursday that a train had struck a pedestrian at the Polk Street railroad crossing.

Livingston police officers along with first responders from the Livingston Volunteer Fire Department and EMS arrived on the scene and located a male subject who had been struck by the train. The subject was identified as Gary Lee Brown, 56 of Livingston.

Brown was transported to CHI St. Luke’s Hospital with incapacitating injuries and was then air-lifted to a Kingwood hospital.

According to Livingston Police Detective Donald Dyson, witnesses indicated that Brown was sitting on the tracks when a southbound train approached but that he did not get off the tracks before the train reached him.

Union Pacific Railroad Police responded to the scene where the train came to a stop, blocking all downtown intersections during the investigation. The scene was cleared by approximately 5:56 p.m. and the train was allowed to continue to its destination.

This accident remains under investigation by the Livingston Police Department.

The Livingston ISD transportation department issued alerts via email and text message to parents, notifying them that school bus drop-off times would be delayed due to the accident.

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