Marble Falls Fire Rescue updates on services

  • Squad 51 crew members, pictured here prepping their vehicle in 2019, have now put the response program into full-time status. Connie Swinney/The Highlander
    Squad 51 crew members, pictured here prepping their vehicle in 2019, have now put the response program into full-time status. Connie Swinney/The Highlander
After more than a full year in service, Marble Falls fire officials say the benefits of a program focused on minimizing the amount of calls in which the main engines responds has proved cost effective and more efficient. The use of personnel and an SUV - known as Squad 51 - for non-fire related medical calls has amounted to 78 percent of those calls in 2019," Marble Falls Fire Res-Sander…

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