An Austin firefighter is recovering from a heat-related illness after working a fire in North Austin, and a dog walker was rescued after getting lost on a trail and passing out.
"We were trying to put it out ourselves, but we had a hard time the fire department out here the window had blown up and everything," Hunt said.Hunt said she saw her couch and electric wheelchair on fire and was somehow able to get out.
The American Red Cross is assisting the six people who are now displaced. Hunt said she’s thankful to the firefighters for coming quickly and containing the fire before it spread to the bedrooms. "Working in the building, extremely hot toxic environment, doing hard, very difficult tasks, it's very easy for a firefighter to not really notice that they are starting to develop some of the early warning signs of heat exhaustion," Austin Fire Department Wildfire Division Lt. Steve Gibbon said."You think you’re bulletproof, and then you’re not," dog walker Duane Osborn said.
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