AUSTIN, Texas — One person was rescued from an apartment fire Monday morning in South Austin.
The Austin Fire Department (AFD) said crews arrived around 8 a.m. to The Bridge at Asher apartments off South Interstate 35, not far from Onion Creek, after receiving a call about a fire on the first floor balcony.
When crews arrived on the scene, they located a fire inside a unit. One person was found unconscious in a bathroom and rescued. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services (ATCEMS) medics performed life-saving measures on that person on the lawn before taking them to a hospital in critical condition, with life-threatening injuries…