'My heart just goes out to the people that are in Building 10. My neighbors showed me a picture, and it's basically hollowed out,' Carrie Muraca said.
Muraca and hundreds of other residents of the Bexley at Silverado apartment complex were evacuated after the fire broke out. Residents at the nearby Whitestone Landing apartment complex were also evacuated."I was convinced there was gonna be damage," she said inside her home.
A few hundred yards away, firefighters continued to work to put out flames and hotspots. City officials asked Cedar Park water customers"It's really important for us to get all our tanks and towers recharged as soon as possible because as long as this heat and wind continue, there's still danger, you know, not just from this fire, but there could be other fires," Mayor Jim Penniman-Morin said.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the fire had burned about 50 acres and was 60% contained, according to the
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