New Braunfels firefighters quickly extinguished a small blaze that briefly interrupted Tuesday afternoon departures at Hoffmann Lane Elementary School.
In coming weeks, the New Braunfels Fire Department will host a series of meetings seeking public input to help create a strategic plan defining the mission and goals of the
A teenager was found dead along the Guadalupe River Friday morning, according to authorities. Author: KENS5.com Staff (KENS 5) Published: 8/2/2021 6:03:48 PM Updated: 6:03 PM CDT August 2, 2021
SAN ANTONIO A teenager was found dead along the Guadalupe River Friday morning, according to authorities.
Around 11:30 a.m., the New Braunfels Police Department and the New Braunfels Fire Department were called to the 1200 block of Gruene Road along the Guadalupe River to reports of a body, police said.
Officials said residents of a nearby hotel discovered the body and it was immediately clear that the teen had been dead for longer than 24 hours. At the time, his identity was not known.
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The arrival of the COVID-19 virus in New Braunfels last year rapidly changed the way paramedics and firefighters â the people at the front of the frontlines â did their jobs.
Paramedic Robert Garcia, a 25-year veteran of the New Braunfels Fire Department, said when the virus arrived in March 2020, the city and the department immediately put new guidelines and restrictions in place to confront what at the time was an illness with a lot of unknowns.
âThey had the death meter running on TV and terms like âessential personnel,â âcentral personnel,â âan abundance of caution,ââ Garcia said. âWith all that happening, everybodyâs immediately suspicious of any contact surfaces, any interactions, touching your eyes â everything they told us. We immediately go from eating at a restaurant or a buffet, and everybody is handling everything to everyoneâs using hand sanitizer. Once we started interacting with our public, the fir