Prescribed burn near Buda now ‘out of control’

HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A controlled burn conducted by Austin Water’s Wildland Conservation Division just west of Buda has moved outside of the containment line and has burned 50 extra acres.
Austin Water says the prescribed burn started around 11 a.m. Wednesday and would take 6-7 hours to complete. Fire crews had achieved about 400 acres of a prescribed 550-acre burn before it “escaped” around 2:45 p.m. and set fire to an extra 200 acres they didn’t intend to b