Rescue 136 Incident Mutual Aid Response MRC

Only minor injuries after a tornado tracked through Parker County Texas. We have responders on the ground assisting with search and rescue .

Adding simping to a gas station on main to peak-season chaser activities.

Fire has extension into the attic! Fully involved!

Working fire in Cameron . MRC on location assessing .

From county emergency management *Crafton* Grass Fire: Crafton FD, along with mutual aid, and Wise County EMS are enroute/on scene of a grass fire in the 4000 block of FM-2265, East of Crafton. Initial reports indicated that structures were threatened.

Since this is circulating around the wxtwitter sphere, I'll add my two cents as a Meteorologist and a avid veteran storm chaser. So I feel qualified to speak on this. The late Meteorologist, father of more modern Meteorology, Chuck Doswell is correct. Storm chasing is a hobby. The commercialization of storm chasing is probably what is turning this from something obvious into a gray area. To be fair, the commercialization is probably making things worse with time. 99.999% of us out chasing aren't out there to save lives. It's because we want to see cool weather, record it, share what we experienced on social media or other forms of documentation for money, clout, or even just personal record keeping. There's nothing wrong with going out to chase storms. That being said, don't gas light yourself. You aren't excited to wake up at 3 am, look at the latest Hrrr for a supercell, drive 500 miles to Mississippi to report a poorly obscure tornado and think you've saved a life. You want to see action. You want to see what the power of the atmosphere can do. You want to experience it, feel it, smell it, hear it, sense it. Aside from research teams with missions with funded projects with goals like vortex 2, icechip, perils, etc. Not chasers, not YouTubers, not storm spotters, content creators, etc. this includes me as I'm not associated with any of these either. BUT. Despite your initial intentions of chasing, accurately and timely reporting of what you see IS VERY IMPORTANT. This is where the availability of streams/content creators, and more avid chasers being regularly out there helps with timely visuals of what we, the Meteorologists, who are the ones who are actually creating life-saving/property-protecting products, partially rely on. Doing a good thing when bad things happen matter, but that's not really why you're out there. And that's okay. There's no shame in that. It's okay to just want to see a violent atmosphere. Our world is a remarkable place. You, yourself, as a chaser seeing a tornado won't save lives. Reporting it to proper authorities through proper channels with some credibility yourself that you've worked to build, can *help* in that effort. The world isn't perfect, and there are times when chasers are prodominately are the actual life saving aspect, a can think of a few right off the top of my head, but those moments are, thankfully, EXTREMELY far and few between. It's another cog in the wheel, not the solution. Both are better together.