Texas wildfires: Hot weather warning as state's biggest blaze spreads
Posted on AllSides March 1st, 2024
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Julio Cortez / AP
A firefighter works through smoldering debris of a home destroyed by the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Stinnett, Texas yesterday. With more than 1 million acres covered so far, an area larger than Rhode Island, the historic Smokehouse Creek fire is only 5% contained and was still raging across two states early today. Authorities in the Texas Panhandle and parts of Oklahoma were battling to keep the blaze under control and to provide shelter to displaced families as well as practical aid to the many farmers and ranchers who have seen...