AUSTIN -- Five years after the deadly plane crash that killed two people at the Echelon building in North Austin, a survivor is helping other burn victims heal.
On Feb. 18, 2010, Joseph Stack set his North Austin house on fire, before flying his single-engine plane into the Northwest Austin building, which housed an IRS office. The fiery crash killed Stack and 68-year-old IRS worker Vernon Hunter.
One survivor suffered severe burns and is now helping other victims who've been through traumatic situations through a nonprofit he helped create called The Burn Unit.
"My family had to go back and forth to Brooke Army Medical Center twice a week for several weeks so there was as lot of cost involved in that," said Sgt. Shane Hill. "So what The Burn Unit tries to do is get some monetary help to the families of burn victims."
Hill was working as an investigator with the state Comptroller's Office at the Echelon building at the time of the crash. He had just walked away from his desk near the windows the plane hit when the crash happened.
