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Pictured are the responses by area fire departments, Hays County Emergency Management and other agencies called to the scene of a wildfire this past weekend.
Photos provided by Hays County EMS and Commissioners Court Judge Ruben Becerra

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Firefighters work to bring wildfire under control in Hays County this past weekend.
Photo provided by Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra

Wildfire brought under control, as conditions worsen

This past weekend in San Marcos, a wildfire off of Hilliard Road burned an area of approximately 50 acres. There were no structural losses or loss of life reported, but the wildfire is just one indication of an environment under stress by weeks of excessive heat.

Fire investigators point to mattress as cause

Brian Frizzell, father of Haley Frizzell who died in the Iconic Village fire, speaks during the Thursday press conference.
Daily Record photo by Dalton Sweat

Fire investigators point to mattress as cause

Haley Michele Frizzell

Fire investigators point to mattress as cause

James Phillip Miranda

Fire investigators point to mattress as cause

Dru Estes

Fire investigators point to mattress as cause

David Angel Ortiz

Fire investigators point to mattress as cause

Belinda Moats Top, pictured are the five young people who died in the Iconic Village fire, that occurred in the early morning hours of July 20, 2018. The arrest Wednesday of Jacobe Ferguson, who was residing at the Iconic Village apartment complex in 2018, was the first arrest in the nearly five-year-old case. Photos provided by city of San Marcos.

Fire investigators point to mattress as cause

San Marcos police and fire investigators said the combustible material that caused a fire that killed five, seriously injured others and displaced more than 200 residents of the Iconic Village apartment complex in San Marcos in July 2018–the deadliest in the city’s history–was a discarded mattress.

Firefighters visit children at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos
Firefighters visit children at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos
Firefighters visit children at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos

Firefighters visit children at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos

Firefighters Travis Sanders, Wesley Keathley and Justin Nauert visited with students and teachers from the Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos summer program. Left, The students from the summer program at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos stand on Engine 1 from the San Marcos Fire Station 1. Middle, Sanders adjusts his breathing apparatus so that students can hear what his voice would sound like in the event of a fire emergency. All the bells and whistles: Engine 1 rolls into Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos with sirens blaring to herald a visit.

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