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The Smokehouse Creek Fire was a record-breaking wildfire affecting the northeastern Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma that started on February 26, 2024. The fire affected numerous communities in Hemphill and Roberts counties, including the town of Canadian .
Smokehouse Creek Fire — 1,078,000 acres and 15% contained. Windy Deuce — 140,000 acres and 55% contained. Grapevine Creek —30,000 acres and 60% contained.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire surpassed Texas’s previously largest wildfire on record, the East Amarillo Complex Fire, which killed a dozen people as it torched more than 907,000 acres in March 2006.
The Texas A&M Forest Fire Incident Viewer shows the Smokehouse Creek Fire at 5% containment, impacting 1,075,000 acres. Here are the numbers for the other fires in the Texas Panhandle: Windy Deuce ...
The fire, which has now consumed 1,075,0000 acres across northern Texas and into Oklahoma, is still only 3% contained, and this was one of four wildfires still active in the Texas Panhandle as of ...
As a result of a settlement between OSHA and Phillips Petroleum Company, OSHA agreed to delete the willful characterization of the citations and Phillips Petroleum Company agreed to pay a $4 million fine and to institute process safety management procedures at HCC and the company's sister facilities at Sweeny, Texas; Borger, Texas; and Woods ...
The fire started five miles (8.0 km) west of the city along Highway 36 and westerly winds of up to 30 mph (48 km/h) spread the flames into town burning a total of 7,665 acres (31 km 2) of land. The fire spared the near-century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian books.
Parts of Fritch, Texas, which straddles Moore and Hutchinson counties to the north of Amarillo, are also under an evacuation order for a separate fire, city officials and the Texas A&M Forest ...