A five-alarm blaze overtook a motel in Houston today. May 31, 2013 — -- Four firefighters died and thirteen were hospitalized after battling a five-alarm blaze that overtook a Houston motel ...

HOUSTON — Milton C. Alford, the first Black firefighter in the history of the Houston Fire Department, died Tuesday at the age of 97, according to the City of Houston. Alford’s groundbreaking ...

Milton C. Alford, who in the 1950s was among the first Black firefighters to join the Houston Fire Department, died Tuesday. He was 97. In 1955, Alford and nine other Black volunteer firefighters ...