Photo courtesy of the Austin Fire Department

A controlled burn by by Austin Water’s Wildland Conservation Division blazed out of control just west of Buda on the 6000 block of FM 967.

According to Palmer Buck, Austin Fire Department Division Chief, a controlled burn that began 11 a.m. Wednesday crossed a designated “fire line” when workers reported that the flames had ignited a cedar tree. Fire crews had achieved about 400 acres of a prescribed 550-acre burn before it “esc...