Will water be there for fires?

By Kim Hilsenbeck

In the Chaparral Park neighborhood, which dates back to the late 1970s, fire hydrants are only on every other street running north and south. Many private water systems, such as the one in Chaparral Park owned by Aqua Texas, call them flush valves. But they look just like fire hydrants.

Buda Fire Department Assistant Chief Gary Langshaw, who was in the Chaparral Park community early Saturday morning after a home was struck by lightning and caught on fire, said calling hydrants flush valves is confusing.