{"id":27271,"date":"2025-10-30T04:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27271\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:22:12","slug":"quick-moving-fire-in-south-austin-burns-over-20-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27271\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick-moving fire in South Austin burns over 20 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EDB8CAF00A5BCAC0BF1BAF7A78031FAF.jpg\" alt=\"South Austin wildfire contained\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/video\/1732400\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Austin wildfire contained<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">A quick-moving fire could have been much worse had first responders not been prepared. Thankfully, crews responded quickly because this property backs right up to an entire subdivision.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A quick-moving fire could have been much worse had first responders not been prepared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">More than 20 acres burned in fewer than two hours in South Austin on Wednesday, Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Thankfully, crews responded quickly because this property backs right up to an entire subdivision.<\/p>\n<p>  \u200bFire danger in Central Texas <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We have a red flag warning day today,&#8221; said Andre Delareza, Assistant Chief at the Austin Fire Department. &#8220;We have high winds, very low humidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">With these conditions in place, the elements created the perfect environment to fuel a fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;The fire was headed towards some of the houses that were in this area there and then shifted over there,&#8221; said Delareza.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dispatch received calls from neighbors reporting smoke at Lostwood Circle and Bear Springs Trail. Once they got there, firefighters soon realized it was larger than expected.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We upgraded it to a brush fire, and it ended up being a full brush fire with a structural protection group and an engine strike team,&#8221; said Delareza.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">In response to the upgraded threat, several units arrived and spent hours monitoring the area in case the fire picked up again.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/snapshot-2025-10-29t223808.546.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;STAR Flight was able to come out and assist us there,&#8221; said Delareza. &#8220;They were rigged and prepared to get some water sources and drop air buckets if we ended up needing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators have not released the cause. Fortunately, crews were prepared. Only one home was evacuated, and no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We had one structure that&#8217;s inside the area that was downwind of the fire. That was a house that had one resident in there with their dog,&#8221; said Delareza. &#8220;We contacted them, we got them out of there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Firefighters urge everyone to stay alert and cautious; serious risks remain.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Please, especially on these days, you have to control ignition,&#8221; said Delareza. &#8220;Be careful, check your chains if you&#8217;re towing something, make sure they&#8217;re not sparking, be diligent about not discarding smoking materials and grass or anything, just be aware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from interviews conducted by FOX 7 Austin&#8217;s Katie Pratt<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Austin wildfire contained A quick-moving fire could have been much worse had first responders not been prepared.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-27271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-travis-county","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}