(4) Hometown Hard News


    Crews battling 'intense' fire at 2-story house under construction in SW Austin, power temporarily shut down for safety photo 2

    A fire broke out early Monday afternoon and was contained by 4:30 pm that evening at an under-construction home in Rollingwood, Texas. The Austin fire department was the first on the scene around 2 o'clock that afternoon. Chief David Wilson said a few minutes later the fire was " through the roof " and the house was engulfed in flames. More than 100 customers were affected by the power outage it caused throughout the neighborhood. After about an hour and a half or so the power did finally come back on around 5:45.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/afd-responding-to-fully-involved-2-story-structure-fire-in-rollingwood/


https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/crews-working-to-extinguish-fire-at-2-story-house-under-construction-in-sw-austin


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