atigue started to set in for Hays High senior Kate Mondragon as she labored to carry a 180-pound dummy past a set of orange cones. Decked out in firefighter bunker gear, helmet and oxygen tank, Mondragon paused several times wanting to rest. But all around her, fellow students and instructors encour...

A proposed new Kyle Fire Department substation has some Mountain City residents hot under the collar. Next year, the Kyle Fire Department plans to renovate an existing home in the 200 block of Mountain City Drive in Mountain City to accommodate the new substation. Kyle Fire Chief Kyle Taylor said th...

Kyle resident Marlo Treybig knew something was wrong when a fire truck breezed by her home on Indigo Cove Friday. It wasn’t until she walked to her front door and saw her neighbor’s shed and fence ablaze that she knew she had to take action. Sprinting across the street, Treybig slammed open her neig...

Update – 11:00 p.m.  After more than four hours, fire crews from three departments extinguished a blaze at a Kyle home around 8:30 p.m. Friday. Officials' initial estimate places the cost of damage at roughly $400,000 to property and belongings at the home, located in the 100 block of Indigo Cove. A...

One person was transported via StarFlight to an area hospital after a vehicle rolled into a ditch on the southbound frontage road of Interstate 35 near Burleson Street in Kyle Thursday. The victim, who was the driver of the vehicle and was the lone occupant, suffered serious injures, said Kyle Taylo...

The ultimate battle of red versus blue hit the turf at Lobo Field this weekend as the Kyle Fire and Police departments squared off in their annual football game. Rainy conditions couldn’t keep the Kyle Fire Department from scoring a 50-16 win over Kyle Police.

By Rafael Marquez A $15,000 expenditure that would go toward a swift water rescue boat for the Emergency Services District No. 5 (ESD 5), which includes the Kyle Fire Department, was allotted by Kyle city officials within the 2016-2017 budget earlier this month.  But city’s budget item doesn’t inclu...

A Kyle Fire Department firefighter walks past the burning wreckage of a sedan that caught fire in the parking lot of the Ross Department store in Kyle on June 23. No one was injured in last week’s fire, which also damaged an SUV parked in front of the burning sedan. Kyle Fire Chief Kyle Taylor said ...

Staff Report   A deluge that fell over a period of less than 12 hours Friday led to extensive flooding that affected nearly every corner of Hays County. The ensuing devastation has forced city and county officials to sign local disaster declarations to assist in obtaining state and federal assistanc...

See our ESD#5 by the numbers here By Kim Hilsenbeck Kyle Fire Department is in a bind, according to Chief Kyle Taylor. When voters in November rejected allowing Emergency Service District (ESD) #5 to collect sales tax in Kyle’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), it left the department without addi...