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Residents praise fast fire response but say mobile-home parks missed emergency alerts

San Marcos City Council · April 14, 2026
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Summary

Councilmembers praised a quick, multi-agency response to an Easter fire, noting multiple aerial drops; residents said many mobile-home park landlines did not receive alerts and urged the city to build evacuation plans and improve outreach.

Several councilmembers described a swift, coordinated response to a small Easter fire, crediting local departments, mutual-aid agencies and aerial resources. Deputy Mayor Sella recounted that “there were seven drops. Two of them were chemicals. The rest were all water helicopters,” and praised the interagency training and dispatch performance that limited damage and prevented…

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