Neighbors are raising critical questions about how a fire was fought in south Travis County Monday evening.

No one was injured but a house on the intersection of Turley Drive and Mystic Drive in Manchaca was heavily damaged by smoke and fire.

"I think he may have lost his garage, but I don't think he should have lost his house because of the response time," neighbor Raymond Duran said.

Duran lives up the street and is one of several neighbors who are concerned about what happened.

"Once the trucks arrived on the scene it was chaos," neighbor Christa Floyd said.  "There was not any water getting put on the fire in any timely manner."

Firefighters said it took them eight minutes to arrive once they received the 911 call and they immediately got to work battling the blaze.

"The first engine that arrived on scene pulled a large diameter hoseline and put a large amount of water on the fire very quickly and that was the first line they pulled off the truck and that was done as soon as they arrived," Captain Calvin Poole of the Manchaca Fire Department said.

Firefighters acknowledge there is low water pressure in the nearby fire hydrants.  However, they were able to keep up with the water supply by shuttling-in water from several blocks away.

Floyd said she did not want to criticize the firefighters, but worries they do not have the best material needed to fight fires.

"We're all scared to death that our house could be next," Floyd said.

Travis County Commissioner Karen Huber represents residents in the Onion Creek Meadows neighborhood.  She said nearby houses recently had two other firefighting efforts hampered by low water pressure.

County leaders in Texas, however, do not have the authority to regulate water pressure in unincorporated areas.

"The community, the people, the residents need us to be able to have that kind of authority," Huber said.

State lawmakers would need to intervene before counties could be granted the authority.

Homebuyers are urged to ask about water pressure in the fire hydrants if they are considering buying a house in an unincorporated part of a Texas county.