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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
New Braunfels City Council members last week gave an initial OK to an ordinance defining efficiency and studio apartments and identifying vehicle parking standards for those types of housing units.
Jean Drew, the cityâs assistant planning director, told council members city staff had identified a need to determine an appropriate parking standard for efficiency and studio apartments that consist of one common room for living, with a separate room allowed only for the bathroom.
âOver the course of the past several years, weâve had several projects come before us in pre-development meetings with an interest in efficiency apartments, including new build apartments and reuse of existing structures, addressing both a nationwide trend and the need for one-family housing,â Drew said.
Man s body pulled from Comal River
Gabriella Ybarra, Staff writer
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A view of the tube chute in Prince Solms Park on the Comal River in New Braunfels. Police say Albert L. Aranda, 62, went underwater near the tube chute and did not resurface.Staff file photo
A 62-year-old man died Friday in an accidental drowning in the Comal River, according to the New Braunfels Police Department.
Police and the New Braunfels Fire Department responded to the New Braunfels tube chute on the Comal River around 3 p.m. for a report of a man who went underwater and did not resurface.
New Braunfels firefighters are inviting residents to three upcoming events designed to give the public up-close access and interaction with them and the New Braunfels Fire Department operation.
âWe are quite literally opening the doors of our firehouses during these upcoming events, and we hope the residents of New Braunfels will take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about our department, our employees and the services we provide,â New Braunfels Fire Chief Patrick OâConnell said.
Following the Independence Day parade downtown on July 3, residents can stop by the Central Fire Station, located at 169 S. Hill Ave., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to meet and greet with firefighters.Â