Texas Fire The fire in the Texas Panhandle is spreading rapidly, due to which many people have to evacuate their homes and power cuts have occurred in many cities. The firefighters had to struggle a lot to control the growing flames. The spreading fires are out of control and could now threaten even rural towns.
People had to leave the impacted region on Wednesday due to a wildfire that started in the Texas Panhandle. Since the fire spread quickly due to strong winds, dry grass, and unusually warm temperatures, thousands of residents in the area had power outages and a nuclear weapons complex had to temporarily close. 60 counties were placed under a state of emergency by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The province’s second-largest wildfire in history started as a result of the Smokehouse Creek fire.
The operations of America’s nuclear weapons unit were halted on Tuesday night but the unit said it was open for normal work on Wednesday. Authorities have not said what may have caused the fire, which spread through the sparsely populated county. Adriana Hill in Borger, a town of about 13,000 people in Hutchinson County, said she and her family were terrified as the fire engulfed the town until the wind changed direction.
Just flew over the wildfires in the Texas Panhandle. Prayers for the town with fire on all sides! pic.twitter.com/OdPDZlnVl9
— Jacob McNeil (@realjakemcneil) February 28, 2024Flames broke out due to strong wind
Hill, 28, said: ‘It was like a ring of fire around Borger, there was no way out… all four main roads were closed. The flames came within a radius of about 1.6 kilometers from my house, where I live with my husband and 20-month-old son.”
Hill said, ‘The thing that saved us was the north wind … it blew it in the opposite direction.’
It may rain today
At the same time, the weather forecast provided some hope for firefighters. It has been predicted that the weather will be cold with rain on Thursday and the wind speed will not be fast. The Smokehouse Creek fire in Hutchinson County has burned about 2,070 square kilometers, according to the latest information released early Wednesday by the Texas A&M Forest Service. This is five times the size of Monday’s fire, when it began.
