ATASCOSA COUNTY, Texas – Four houses were destroyed in a fire in Atascosa County, according to authorities.
Multiple agencies responded to the fire around 1:40 p.m. Thursday in the 100 block of Way Cross Road, near Old Pleasanton Road and just south of the Bexar-Atascosa county line.
As of Thursday afternoon, the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office said the fire is now contained.
The four homes are considered a “total loss,” the sheriff’s office said. No injuries have been reported.
Linda Andrews is one of the people who lost her home in the fire alongside her neighbor Robin Silva.
“We have nothing but what we have on our bodies,” Andrews said. “We have alive people and alive dogs. That’s it.”
Atascosa County Fire Marshal Ronald Sanchez said seven vehicles were also destroyed.
Sanchez believes the fire started as a grass fire, and he is investigating how it spread.
Mark Montgomery, assistant fire chief of Bexar County Emergency Services District No. 2, said an estimated five to 10 acres were involved in the fire.
No official evacuations have been reported, Montgomery said.
Families who were home when the fire started told KSAT they heard “bangs.”
“All I could see was black smoke,” one woman told KSAT.
In March 2025, 40 structures were burned to the ground in the nearby Duke Road fire. The fire and its hotspots lasted for days along the Atascosa and Bexar County lines, just south of Loop 1604.
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