By Ashley Landis, San Marcos Daily Record
Photo by Ashley Landis
Flames visible from IH-35 in Buda stopped traffic on Tuesday as one of several wildfires burned across Hays County. The fires burned in Buda, Dripping Springs and Wimberley yesterday during high winds and a red flag warning. Buda’s fire near Dacy Lane was the smallest [...]
Lightning Strike May Have Sparked Fire
By Kenneth Dean, Tyler Morning Telegraph Photo by Tom Turner, Tyler Morning Telegraph
Firefighters in Anderson County are gaining control of a fire that has engulfed four large petroleum storage tanks this afternoon in Anderson County near Slocum. Units from Palestine, Grapeland, Slocum and Elkhart are among those on the [...]
Reported by Odessa Online
Photo by Mark Sterkel, Odessa American
West Odessa Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jimmy Ellis, left, and other firefighters look over the remains of a house destroyed by fire Thursday morning on West Blair Street near North Mercury Avenue in West Odessa.
Odessa firefighters assisted in fighting the blaze. High winds made fighting [...]
By Henri Brickey, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Howling winds and bone dry conditions have many rural fire departments around the South Plains waiting in anticipation.
“We’ve been dodging bullets so far,” said Jim Justus, chief of the Crosbyton Volunteer Fire Department.
The Texas Forest Service responded to 22 major fires Tuesday in Texas, totaling more than 18,700 acres burned.
Pat Schaub, [...]
By Matt Frazier and Bill Hanna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photos of Paradise fire
Photos of Benbrook fire
At least 15 homes and 800 acres have been destroyed by grass fires near Paradise in southwest Wise County, officials said. The fires were among dozens fueled by strong winds, some approaching 60 miles per hour, that were reported [...]
A large grass fire descended on the West Texas town of Maryneal this afternoon. The town had to be evacuated as firefighters moved in but there was one structure that couldn’t be saved. A vacant building that had fireworks and ammo inside caught fire and the material inside did go off. Firefighters let that structure [...]
By Daniel Borunda, The El Paso Times
Arson investigators are searching for a man in connection with a fire that caused “extensive damage” to the interior of a home Tuesday afternoon in Northeast El Paso, Fire Department officials said. The house fire in the 4900 block of Sierra Madre was one of several incidents that have [...]
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