Firefighters Put Out Trailer Home, House Fires On Christmas Day

Austin TX

25 December, 2020

9:38 PM

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AUSTIN, TX — Firefighters put out a fire at a South Austin trailer home Friday afternoon hours after putting out flames engulfing the outside of two houses in North Austin, officials said. The structure fire erupted at 6600 Elm Creek Dr. just before 1:15 p.m., the Austin Fire Department wrote on Twitter. No one was in the trailer home at the time, and no injuries were reported. Firefighters did not provide the estimated cost of property loss. The residents of the trailer home do not live in the structure full time, and were therefore not there at the time, fire officials said. AFD has extinguished a trailer home fire at 6600 Elm Creek Drive. No one was home at the time of the fire. No injuries to FFs or civilians. The residents do not live here full time so no one displaced. Cause being investigated. pic.twitter.com/VpNpXT3ECF— Austin Fire Info (@AustinFireInfo) December 25, 2020 The cause of the fire is currently under investigation, fire officials said. Hours before, firefighters were called to the intersection of 49th Street and Strass Drive in North Austin early Friday where the exterior of two houses were engulfed in flames, fire officials wrote on Twitter just after 5 a.m. 49th and Strass Dr, arrived to find the exterior of 2 houses on fire. Fire is now under control. No injuries reported. pic.twitter.com/DR4AyMn2qy— Austin Fire Info (@AustinFireInfo) December 25, 2020 The cause of the fire was not disclosed, and no injuries were reported.