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HOUSTON, TEXAS, FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED to a working apartment fire Thursday night in the Clear Lake area.  The 2-alarm blaze destroyed 20 apartment units …… and a fire engine.

Engine 71 was the first-in pumper and had the first handline taken into service.  Investigators believe that a flying ember blew into the right rear cab door and started a fire inside the cab.

The engine was an older pumper and was written off as a total loss.

Hat tip to:  Ricky R.