(Guadalupe county) — Guadalupe County fire crews battled a house fire Wednesday night after flames spread from a burn barrel to a nearby home and garage in McQueeney.

Patrick Pinder, Guadalupe County fire and emergency management coordinator, says the incident was reported at 8:30 p.m. in the 400 block of Woodcreek Circle.

“The fire began in a burn barrel. We had a resident in the community who was burning in a barrel and the fire got out of control and then spread to adjacent structures which was the house and the garage area,” said Pinder.

Lake Dunlap, McQueeney and Guadalupe County Fire Rescue units all responded to the blaze.

Pinder says the fire broke out the same day Guadalupe County officials enacted a burn ban for the unincorporated areas of the county. While the order restrict

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