Fort Worth cleans up Saturday after being slammed by overnight storms

Overnight storms kept Fort Worth crews busy into Saturday.

The Fort Worth Fire Department responded to around 800 calls between midnight and Saturday afternoon.

A spokesperson said crews responded to 136 power line down calls, 57 fires, 20 high-water investigations, 12 high-water rescues, 10 car accidents, and one structural collapse (a tree on a house).

In one South Fort Worth neighborhood off of Schieffer and New York avenues, damaged trees dotted the streets, one of them trapping a car underneath.

“It was terrible night,” said Thomas Gilyard, who lives in the area.

“You hear just whistling and, you know, just real bad. You hear stuff blowing around,” he said. “The furniture on my porch blew off, you know, fence blew down. You could just hear it, you know, real loud. And that was re