AFD responded to several fires across the city in the past week. Fire officials are warning residents of the critical risk for wildfires.
"We could have a large fire if it’s burning in the right spot," said Division Chief Thayer Smith of the Austin Fire Department."If you’ve got high winds and low humidity it’s just a recipe for disaster," said Smith. "Anything that gets going is going to be really hard to stop."
North of there, a viewer tweeted a video of a fire Tuesday night in a camp off Lee Barton Drive near Bouldin Creek, just feet away from where a similar fire happened Sunday night off Dawson Road. "Every morning we have a conference call with our wildfire division. We check the weather status. We get recommendations on what the staffing should be for that day," said Smith.
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