Rain offers slight reprieve from largest wildfire in history of Texas
AFP | Houston
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Rainfall offered some reprieve from the largest wildfire in the history of Texas, officials said yesterday, though dry, gusty conditions were expected to return this weekend for a blaze that has killed two people and scorched a million acres.
Four major fires are actively burning across the state’s northern area, known as the Texas panhandle, as well as neigh-boring Oklahoma, fueled by an unseasonably hot winter and ferocious winds.
“Most of the fire received some precipitation yesterday and there was no fire growth,” the Texas A&M Forest Service posted on X about the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest of the five. It started Monday and now covers an estimated 1,075,000 acres (435,000 hectares), and is 15 percent contained.
But the reprieve could be short lived, as “Critical fire weather conditions are expected to return midday Saturday and once again after sunrise Sunday,” tweeted the National Weather Service in Amarillo.
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