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Texas wildfire: Crews make progress containing largest fire in state history
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Crews in the Texas Panhandle have made progress in containing the Smokehouse Creek fire, but a change in the weather could help the fire spread this weekend.
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Wildfire scorching the Texas Panhandle has grown to the largest in state history
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Texas wildfire: Crews make progress containing largest fire in state history
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches.
CANADIAN, Texas — A fast-moving wildfire burning through the Texas Panhandle has grown into the second-largest blaze in state history. The fire is forcing evacuations and triggering power outages as
A cluster of wildfires is scorching the Texas Panhandle, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history. The flames blackened the landscape across a vast
A wildfire spreading across the Texas Panhandle has become the largest in state history. Authorities say the Smokehouse Creek fire grew Thursday to nearly 1,700 square miles of scorched rural
Wildfires continued to burn Wednesday through portions of the Texas Panhandle as hot and dry conditions were expected to persist, and the largest fire grew to half a million acres
A massive wildfire that has exploded to more than 1 million acres of land in just four days in the Texas Panhandle has now become the largest wildfire in state history.
By Martha Shade, CNN (CNN) —The largest wildfire in Texas history has burned over a million acres and left scores homeless. At least five separate fires are burning across the state and in neighboring Oklahoma. The fire has also killed thousands of cattle – a major source of income in the region.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle has burned 850,000 acres and according to data from Stacker wildfires have been burning more area in recent decades.
CNN By Joe Sutton, Steve Almasy, Holly Yan and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Catastrophic wildfires ripping across the Texas Panhandle have killed at least one person and threaten to destroy more homes, cattle and livelihoods as the biggest inferno in state history engulfs more land every minute.
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires that scorched the Texas Panhandle included a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, with flames moving with alarming speed and blackening the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches.
Seven wildfires were raging in Texas, including one of the largest in recent state history, authorities said Wednesday, as properties were destroyed and multiple evacuation orders were issued, particularly…
A wildfire spreading across the Texas Panhandle became the largest in state history Thursday, growing to nearly 1,700 square miles (4,400 square kilometers) of scorched rural ranchlands and destroyed homes.
By Joe Sutton and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — The second-largest fire in Texas history continues to burn Thursday, with the deadly blaze – already bigger than Rhode Island – and several others destroying scores of homes in the state’s panhandle and killing thousands of cattle.
Texas emergency crews were struggling Thursday to contain the largest wildfire in the US state's history, with the blaze leaving at least one person dead
