A wildfire in the Steiner Ranch subdivision is now 80 percent contained, up from 75 percent this morning.The blaze destroyed 23 homes and caused damage to 28 properties.
Evacuated Steiner Ranch resident Christopher Sherrod returned to house late Tuesday night and posted this video from his home yesterday afternoon.
Traffic backed up on Quinlan Park Road south of RM 620 near 8 a.m. as commuters competed with parents dropping their children off at Steiner Ranch Elementary.
A neighbor on Zebecca Creek Drive fared worse, losing a back deck and fence.
"No one in Central Texas, or even in the state of Texas, can feel complacent after this," said Agnes Reeves , whose home sits just a few hundred feet from homes that were consumed by fire.
Volunteers from Austin Christian Fellowship drove up and asked if she needed any help. Reeves, like more than 98 percent of the homeowners in Steiner Ranch, no longer did.
Church volunteers drove around Steiner Ranch on Tuesday evening and early Wednesday collecting trash and handing out bottled water, paper towel rolls, gloves and cleaning supplies.
At the church, huge stacks of water, pet food, diapers and other supplies covered a small parking lot.
"Our hearts really go out to the people in Bastrop," said Brian Denny , a church member and Steiner Ranch resident working at the supply station.
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