APD sergeant dies after receiving severe burns

SAN ANTONIO (KXAN) — An Austin police sergeant died after he received serious burns to more than a quarter of his body after a brush pile fire he was tending off-duty at his Buda home got out of control earlier this month.
Sgt. Gary Christenberry, a military veteran, was burning the pile on Sept. 12, “something he’s done a thousand times before,” his daughter Chelsea Roberts told KXAN, after Hurricane Harvey knocked down trees in his yard. The fire flared up and caught th