The City of Austin will celebrate today the completion of the $16.5 million East Seventh Street makeover with a "street fair" at the corner of East Seventh and Gonzales streets.

Central Texas officials bracing for next large fire

... puts out a hot spot Tuesday, a day after a 30-acre grass fire destroyed 15 homes. Although the state's largest wildfire this year was in West Texas, Central Texas is unique because fires in the area have been occurring closer to a major population. ...

ESD 6 mulls merger with Austin Fire Department

Travis County Emergency Services District No. 6 commissioners are set to discuss the future of Lake Travis Fire Rescue Friday as its union is in preliminary merger talks with Austin Fire Department.

UPDATEDCamp Swift fire 90 percent contained

A massive brush fire is still burning Saturday morning near Camp Swift, about 40 miles outside of Austin.

Camp Swift fire 25 percent contained

A massive brush fire is still burning Saturday morning near Camp Swift, about 40 miles outside of Austin.

Monday was hottest day of the year so far, set records for energy use

... with a cold compress around the neck is paramount to treating both of these injuries, he said. The threat of wildfire also remains high in Central Texas. About 265 brush fires broke out in Travis County in June and July, and in the past seven days ...

Officials credit ‘firewise’ planning for sparing neighborhood from blaze

Belvedere subdivision residents Marshall Willis and Tina Carey survey the hundreds of acres burned in their neighborhood.

Blotter: Gunpowder ignites confrontation

A Denton police officer was dispatched to the 1800 block of Westminster Street after a caller reported hearing fireworks about 3:50 a.m. Sunday.

Crews Douse Brush Fire in East Austin

Austin fire crews worked to put out a brush fire early Wednesday morning in East Austin.

Homicide victim identified in Northeast Travis County

A female body was found by the Manor Fire Department when they arrived on scene for a grass fire on Springdale Road.

Fireworks ban helping keep grass fires to a minimum

No fireworks. No charcoal grilling at city parks. No problem. Members of the Austin Fire Department are hoping it stays that way.

Photos of the Day, July 2011

... Conchas, N.M. Fire creeps into the canyon. With firefighters bracing for another day of strong, erratic winds, a wildfire threatening the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory and a community in northern New Mexico was poised Thursday to ...

Photos of the Day, July 2011

... Conchas, N.M. Fire creeps into the canyon. With firefighters bracing for another day of strong, erratic winds, a wildfire threatening the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory and a community in northern New Mexico was poised Thursday to ...

Commissioner Huber’s July Column – Fireworks ban

... Road area, and the Bell Springs Road area, along with countless smaller fires. We are indeed highly vulnerable to wildfire and persistent weather trends continue to increase this risk. Western Travis County is among the most at-risk because of the ...

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Texas firefighters are trying to contain a 14,000-acre wildfire that has destroyed two homes and six trailers in East Texas and forced evacuations in three communities.

Tracking Wildfires Around Austin

A wildfire Thursday in northern Hays County and another near a Williamson County subdivision on Wednesday served as stark reminders that fire danger remains high throughout the state.
... said. With Central Texas enduring one of the hottest, driest periods on record, fire officials have warned of the wildfire danger. In April, a fire in Oak Hill in Southwest Austin burned about 100 acres, destroyed 11 homes and damaged 10 others. ...
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