Since December, grass fires in the state have killed three people, burned
more than 200,000 acres and destroyed at least 250 homes, according to the Texas
Forest Service.
The following fires have been reported in the past two days:
•A 50,000-acre fire with a 50-mile perimeter in parts of Irion and Reagan
counties, an hour west of San Angelo. The fire was about 70 percent contained
Tuesday.
•A fire that scorched 35,000 acres in Eastland County, about 125
miles west of Dallas, was contained Tuesday. The fire destroyed 35 structures
and a church, forced evacuation of the towns Carbon, Gorman and Desdemona and
essentially destroyed the tiny community of Kokomo, which lost at least eight
homes. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries.
•A 40,000-acre blaze in
Ringgold and Nocona in North Texas near the Oklahoma border was contained.
•A 40,000-acre fire in Sterling County in West Texas was contained. No
structural damage was reported, but two people suffered minor injuries.
•A
21,350-acre fire in Donley County in the Panhandle was contained.
•A
6,000-acre fire in Huckabay in Erath County, about 95 miles southwest of Dallas,
was contained. It destroyed five homes and several other structures.
That is over 312 square miles of land. The forecast I checked just a minute ago predicts no rain in the foreseeable future.
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I was listening to NPR yesterday, and they were interviewing the chief of the Eastland Cnty. volunteer fire department. He said the flames out there were reported to be nearly 100 ft. high in some places; tall enough so that residents of a city 11 to 12 miles away could see them on the horizon.
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