Burnet County ESD No. 9 bulking up Spicewood-area fire protection Burnet County Emergency Services District No. 9 announced the hiring of Sam Stacks as part-time fire chief for Spicewood Fire Rescue. Stacks was the Spicewood fire marshal for the past 18 months and was a 24-year member of Marble Falls Fire Rescue. File photo
With Texas 71 cutting through Spicewood and growth from Austin edging into the Burnet County community, Emergency Services District No. 9 is making changes to move toward 24-7 protection in the area.
The district recently hired Sam Stacks as part-time fire chief for Spicewood Fire Rescue. Stacks has served as the Spicewood fire marshal for 18 months and has a lengthy firefighting career, including more than two decades with Marble Falls Fire Rescue.
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A fire at the High Vista Condominiums in Horseshoe Bay on Tuesday, June 1, displaced three families.
Horseshoe Bay Fire Rescue Capt. Josh Wimberley said the department received the fire call at 9:11 p.m. and were on the scene at Out Yonder and Poker Chip by 9:17 p.m.
It took firefighters about 20 minutes to extinguish the blaze.
The fire only involved one of three units, though a second suffered smoke damage. A third family was moved because their condo didn’t have utilities, the captain added.
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A lawsuit between Marble Falls-area plaintiffs and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Asphalt Inc. (now doing business as Lone Star Paving) was put to rest May 23 once all involved parties signed off on a settlement agreement. The lawsuit, filed in 2017 over a proposed rock crushing plant, hit a dead end after landowners sold the property where the plant would be built.
“The sale of the property has mooted the primary basis of the lawsuit in as much as Lone Star will no longer be operating a rock crusher facility on the property,” the settlement agreement reads.
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A chaplain program for first responders in Marble Falls will launch soon, providing additional support for on and off-duty officers. Spearheaded by the Marble Falls Police Department, the program focuses on the mental well-being of the force’s employees.
Over the past two years, the department has made a conscious effort to address mental health issues caused by work-related traumas, previously a taboo topic in the field, Assistant Police Chief Glenn Hanson said.
“When I entered the field in 1990, you didn’t talk about (mental health),” Hanson explained. “Everybody knew (the effects of the job) made some folks alcoholics and made other folks depressed, but nobody talked about it. That has changed, and that’s for the good.”
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