A string of fires in West Texas have claimed the life of a law enforcement official, burned at least 50 homes, and devoured more than 45,000 acres, officials said Friday.
have claimed the life of a law enforcement official, burned at least 50 homes, and devoured more than 45,000 acres, officials said Friday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered flags in Eastland County at half mast and presented a member of Finley's family Friday with a flag flown over the state Capitol.The four fires that make up the Eastland Complex Fire — the Kidd, Wheat Field, Oak Mott and Walling fires — have burned 45,383 acres, according to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. The fire was only 15 percent contained late Friday.
The blazes prompted wide evacuations in and around Eastland County, about 130 miles west of Dallas, including an evacuation order for the entire city of Gorman, federal officials said. That order, as of early Friday, applied to an estimated 475 homes, they said. Combined with the Eastland Complex, the active fires across the state have scorched more than 65,000 acres, according to data maintained by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and state-run Texas A&M Forest ServiceThe wildfires are rare for late winter, when rain can stunt their development, but this year precipitation has been scarce, and temperatures were in the high 70s in many parts of the region Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
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