» Read discussion on Austin Fire 05/24/11 Austin city leaders are discussing how best to spend your tax dollars when it comes to public safety. The Austin Police Department and Austin Fire Department recently released proposed budget cuts. APD Chief Art Acevedo addressed the mayor and city council Tuesday in a work session, telling them what he is willing to sacrifice as the city prepares to tighten its belt by nearly $10 million ...
03/22/11 Officials with the Austin Fire Department said a construction crew caused a gas leak in East Austin Tuesday morning.
03/02/11 Austin Mayor Pro-Tem Mike Martinez says he will soon release hundreds of e-mails he exchanged with other city leaders, according to KVUE's exclusive news partner the Austin American-Statesman. In some e-mails already made public, Martinez and Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell exchanged comments about Austin Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr. The two also took aim at City Manager Marc Ott, and Assistant City ...
02/11/11 Austin Fire Department says two people were injured in a fire Friday morning in North Austin.
02/07/11 Austin Fire investigators have caught the man who is responsible for setting fire to two South Austin restaurants.
09/15/10 It's been one week since the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine hit Central Texas. However, in some places the water has barely gone down. Austin Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr went up in an Austin Police helicopter Wednesday to get a bird's-eye view of area waterways. AFD extended the ban on Lake Austin and Lady Bird lake again Wednesday through at least noon Thursday. Meanwhile, just outside ...
04/08/10 With the Austin Fire Civil Service Committee finished with its role in the process, the Austin City Council's Fire Committee will take over the selection of Austin's new fire chief.
03/31/10 The search for a new fire chief got closer to being finished Tuesday afternoon as the Austin Fire Civil Service Committee and the Austin City Council's Fire Committee finalized their list of candidates.
03/30/10 The search for a new fire chief got closer to being finished Tuesday afternoon as the Austin Fire Civil Service Committee and the city council's Fire Committee finalized their list of candidates.
02/19/10 FROM THE BLADE'S NEWS SERVICES AUSTIN - A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency yesterday by crashing his small plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, setting off a raging fire that sent workers running for their lives. Emergency crews found two bodies in the wreckage of the building. Austin Fire Department ...
02/18/10 According to Austin Fire Deparment spokesperson Michelle DeCrane, emergency crews found the remains of two people inside the building Thursday evening. Their identities have not been confirmed. The Austin Police Department has turned over the lead investigation to the FBI into a plane crash that sparked a massive fire and evacuations at a Northwest Austin building. Officials are investigating ...
01/18/10 Lake Travis and Austin Fire Departments responded to a two-alarm fire Monday morning at a home in Steiner Ranch located in West Travis County.
11/20/09 Wednesday's tour bus crash on Interstate 90 was the largest mass-casualty event that Austin Fire Chief Dan Wilson has been to in his 25 years with the departmentment | 
