Fire destroys abandoned building in southeast Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze at an abandoned building Saturday evening in southeast Austin, said the Austin Fire Department.
Fire crews responded to the fire at about 7:38 p.m. in the 1600 block of South Pleasant Valley Road north of East Riverside Drive.
AFD said that the firefight was defensive and that they had it knocked down in less than an hour, just before 8:30 p.m.
There were no injuries, and the cause of the fire and the cost of the damage remains under i