Questions remain about mysterious explosion reported northwest of Uvalde on Highway 55

  Our volunteer fireman went out there, the sheriffs department went out there and the property owner refused to let them on the property. I’m concerned about the fact that, did the sheriff’s office have the authority to go onto the property despite the property owners’ objections?  Did the volunteer fire department have authority to go onto the property despite the property owner’s objections?

When you have that magnitude of an explosion, and that magnitude of a fire, and the owner attributes it   he was doing a burning in a pit, I have a hard time believing that.

And then appointed elected officials, our volunteer officials doing to make sure what exactly was happening on that property”

And not only was the burn ban being violated, was the property owner cited for that?   Was there follow up afterwards to determine the cause of the fire and was a legitimate statement that the property owner made?

These kinds of things, you’re not only talking about a property owner being belligerent and hard to work with, you’re talking about everybody else around that who could’ve been gravely affected by what this one individual was doing out there  Property, home and people; I would hope that our sheriff’s office would be following up with that and doing an investigation and fire department has the authority to go onto a property in those instances that they would do so,” Diana Olvedo-Karau said.

The Uvalde Hesperian submitted a public records request to the City of Uvalde requesting logs of 911 calls that may have been made about the incident.

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Residents report hearing explosions overnight approximately 7 miles northwest of Uvalde on Highway 55 – Uvalde Hesperian