A brushfire that started in Cedar Park, Texas, Tuesday destroyed a constructing at an house complicated and broken three others.

The hearth is being referred to as the Parmer Lane Fire, taking its moniker from a close-by thoroughfare. Cedar Park is 16 miles northwest of Austin.

The blaze started at 6 p.m. with a grass hearth earlier than spreading to the Bexley at Silverado house complicated. 

Texas A&M Forest Service employees and Cedar Park firefighters have been in a position to maintain the flames from hitting the close by Whitestone Landing townhomes from Tuesday night time into Wednesday.

“I just opened my back door, saw the blaze. I heard the sirens like for 15 minutes. I didn’t think anything of it. The first thing I saw was my car and flames right behind it. So I just grabbed my keys. I didn’t put any shoes on. I had shoes in my car. I just got out of there, man,” evacuee Isaac Anzaldua instructed KTBC, an Austin Fox affiliate.

As of Wednesday morning, 60% of the 50-acre conflagration had been contained. Two slight accidents related to the fireplace have been reported by officers.

The Texas A&M Forest Service posted a map Wednesday of the fireplace’s acreage on the X social media website.

Information map of the #ParmerLaneFire in Williamson County displaying an estimated 50 acres as of Aug. 9, 2023. Please observe, this can be a preliminary perimeter and is topic to alter. pic.twitter.com/cYVeA7bCMz</ a>

— Incident Information - Texas A&M Forest Service (@AllHazardsTFS) August 9, 2023

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