FIRE
GALLERY: Fire guts South Austin condo project
![An investigator works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-9dd3e581-54b9-4f14-8ff2-c1acded567e6.jpeg?width=660&height=449&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An investigator works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-b570e8f2-f5f6-48ae-bbb5-a724cb65469c.jpeg?width=660&height=439&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An apartment complex that was under construction smolders after a fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-c32b1797-07fe-43cf-b01a-3772f8e07cbe.jpeg?width=660&height=402&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An apartment complex that was under construction smolders after a fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-9b25ce1c-3e24-4ceb-ae1d-4015700326eb.jpeg?width=660&height=422&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An occupied apartment building, in foreground, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-14eb8cc5-038f-4637-bb53-61c6fb896e95.jpeg?width=660&height=447&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An occupied apartment building, in foreground, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![A worker walks past a destroyed truck at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-fb4e4597-3310-4809-ad8b-079618c0d8eb.jpeg?width=660&height=413&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
A worker walks past a destroyed truck at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![A car is destroyed at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-e870b0b3-f581-4ed5-a0d9-8d279b79a091.jpeg?width=660&height=390&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
A car is destroyed at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An occupied apartment building, left, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-a816e658-95d0-4e46-9476-36907552684a.jpeg?width=660&height=445&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An occupied apartment building, left, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An occupied apartment building is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-036bfdfb-f1db-4072-8e3b-e2f79572ad3d.jpeg?width=660&height=409&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An occupied apartment building is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![Austin firefighters work at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-9f415210-f93c-466c-9f87-d0c124536f60.jpeg?width=660&height=409&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Austin firefighters work at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An occupied apartment building, in foreground, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-03ce7bc8-e34a-470a-9321-02616802935c.jpeg?width=660&height=444&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An occupied apartment building, in foreground, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An apartment complex that was under construction smolders after a fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-97182ec2-6c04-48f2-a522-5f0bf25b1007.jpeg?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An apartment complex that was under construction smolders after a fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-3548591a-ba4e-4429-8cd6-5f18deceffff.jpeg?width=660&height=443&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An occupied apartment building, in foreground, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-26d09f05-b4c8-40d5-9f76-2e78bf386311.jpeg?width=660&height=445&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An occupied apartment building, in foreground, is destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-5890f339-1245-48db-a56c-cafee7737b23.jpeg?width=660&height=451&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
An Austin firefighter works at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![Austin firefighters work at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-8fb47f6b-e8db-4f11-83dc-0e97ec1dd54e.jpeg?width=660&height=431&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Austin firefighters work at an apartment fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Austin American-Statesman![Austin firefighters work at a fire at an occupied apartment building that was destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/09/19/NAAS/ghows_image-TX-f9673467-7d3a-4952-a1d1-91e7a919b53c.jpeg?width=660&height=423&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Austin firefighters work at a fire at an occupied apartment building that was destroyed by fire after an adjacent construction site caught fire on Banister Lane on Thursday September 19, 2019. [JAY JANNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
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