Los Escondidos home burns
GLYNIS CRAWFORD SMITH/THE HIGHLANDER
A Granite Shoals Fire Rescue firefighter in full gear makes his way along 600 feet of firehose in Los Escondidos Tuesday, June 14. Climbing heat, a remote location and heavy gear and breathing equipment required for attic work hampered personnel from six area fire departments at 1406 Burnet County Road 415 on the south shore of Lake Marble Falls.
By Glynis Crawford Smith
The Highlander
A house fire in the Los Escondidos addition on the south shore of Lake Marble Falls Tuesday, June 14, called in support from six area fire units before it was defeated about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 15.
The walls were still standing at the home of Lawrence and Pat Burton at 1406 Burnet County Road 415.
“The call came in about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday of a possible structure fire and someone in the home,” said Michael Phillips, chief of the Marble Falls Area Volunteer Fire Department (MFAVFD). “EMS was first on the scene and got the gentleman out of the house.”
The Burtons said at the scene that he had been napping and awoke to a home filled with smoke.
The call amounted to a three-alarm fire with 30-40 firefighters with support personnel there from the MFAVFD, Marble Falls, Granite Shoals, Cottonwood Shores, Spicewood and North Lake Travis.
The fire was called after midnight, but Phillips said his units returned at reports of smoke at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, staying until certain of no flare up at noon.
