Bender said most fire departments ended up with some damage to their trucks - the rough country roads and getting stuck in ditches causing broken suspensions, and other minor damage. 

But one truck get caught in the line of moving fire.

"There was a truck that broke down. I think the smoke probably suffocated his truck," Bender said. "The fire went around him. Stay out of the head fire. It'll roll right over you, in seconds," he said.

The chief at the Atlanta Fire Department individual fire departments will be assessing the cost of damage over the next several days, but called it was an expensive fire to fight. 

The Union’s study, done in cooperation with cty of Austin Fire staff shows only seven out of 46 fire stations are consistently meeting response time goals, mainly in the central core of the city. The rest are lagging by seconds or even minutes.

The key solution involves building (and staffing) new fire/EMS stations in:

• Travis Country area
• Loop 360 area
• Good Night Ranch area
• Moore’s Crossing area
• Canyon Creek area
• A sixth area AFD is keeping an eye on is the Manchaca/ Slaughter Lane neighborhood in Austin’s southwest end.

Firefighters’ Union leaders say the Association has the support of management. That puts the onus on city leaders to decide how to pay for the new stations if the city manager gives the green light.