A massive fire destroyed an apartment complex in North Bexar County on Thursday, and news cameras captured a scary moment when a large portion of the structure collapsed while a reporter was interviewing a chief on scene.
Firefighters were hampered by completely frozen hydrants and couldn't gain any ground on the fire because they had to continually stop to bring more water from remote locations, according to KSAT News.
“Our main concern is water supply. All these hydrants out here are dry. Well, they’re not dry. They’re just frozen and there’s no water,” Bexar-Bulverde Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jerry Bialick told KSAT.
Chief Bialick is the man being interviewed in the above footage when the section of the building collapsed hours after the fire began at around 1 pm.
The building was evacuated and there were no injuries reported, but residents suffered being stranded outside in the biting cold that has wreaked havoc across portions of Texas this past week.
You can get another look at the blaze and the fireground conditions below in a raw video posted by Blake Wertz:
