What Firefighters Need Most In Wichita Falls Right Now

With the extremely dry weather in Wichita Falls, we all know how quickly a fire can spread. You can help out the brave men and women around town this week with a local donation drive.

Here is an awesome community event in Wichita Falls that you can be a part of the next few days. Sikes Senter Mall and Community Partners are putting on a donation drive at the mall Wednesday through Friday. You can drop off items at the mall entrance near Boot Barn. Please no cash donations, our local fire departments could use the following items.

Donation Items for Wichita Falls Fire Departments

Water
Gatorade
Powerade
Granola
Pickles
Jerky
Nuts
Crackers
Gum
Chapstick
Eye Drops
Bandanas
Small Towels
Cooling Neck Wraps
Wipes
Baby Powder
Sunscreen
Advil
Tylenol
Benadryl
Cold Packs
Electrolyte Packets
Disposable Cups/Plates/Utensils
Paper Towels

You can bring any of those following items to the Sikes Senter Mall entrance near Boot Barn on Wednesday or Thursday from 1PM to 4PM. On Friday the donation drive will last from 1PM to 5:30PM. The folks at Sikes Senter Mall say you won't even have to get out of your car, they're offering a curbside drop off for the items listed above.

Friendly Reminder Wichita County Under a Burn Ban Through October 4th

Speaking of local volunteer fire departments in Wichita Falls. Wichita West let us know this morning that the burn ban for our county remains until October 4th. Probably best to skip the fire pit the next few weeks, but with how hot it has been I don't think any of us want to spend some time near a fire right now anyway.

LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

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