Twenty years ago, fire destroyed Ellis Middle School. The southeast Austin school didn’t have a sprinkler system. On Friday night, a sprinkler system saved Ellis from potentially "hundreds of ...

An apartment building's sprinkler system is being credited for saving lives after a fire in Northwest Austin early this morning. The fire department responded to a fire call around 12:30 a.m. at the ...

Though Houston has been treated to mild winter weather so far this year, potential freezing temperatures and extreme winter storms can damage sprinkler systems. Much of Southeast Texas will experience ...

AFD is at the scene of a second floor apartment fire in east Austin. It is the fire department's third major fire response this morning after an apartment fire ...