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The population of Spanish Fort was 50 in 2000, but the majority of the structures in the square remained vacant and abandoned. [2] On February 10, 2009, an F4 tornado struck Spanish Fort. The strongest tornado of the outbreak touched down as a multiple vortex tornado just south of Spanish Fort initially snapping pecan trees. [3]
September 12 – A fire started in an electric generator behind the intensive care unit of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killed 14 patients du [299] e to asphyxiation from smoke or life support equipment shutdown. [302] September 18 – A fire in a boarding school near Monrovia, Liberia, killed 27. [303] October 2 – Star City fire.
The Spanish were unable to approach the palisaded village. The eleven volleys of cannon fire they directed at the palisade were ineffective. The fighting ceased at nightfall and the Spanish reassessed their situation. The natives had captured their two cannons, 19 men in the Spanish army, mostly Spaniards, were dead and 14 were wounded.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire, now the largest recorded wildfire in Texas history, has killed two people so far. By Sunday it had burned nearly 1.1 million acres and was only 15% contained, the Texas ...
The Grape Vine Creek fire, at 34,800 acres, was 60% contained. The Magenta Fire in Oldham County, spanning approximately 3,300 acres, was 85% contained. The 2,000-acre 687 Reamer Fire was 10% ...
A select committee of the Texas state Senate lambasted executives from a Houston-area power company Monday over the utility’s preparation for Hurricane Beryl, which left millions of Texas ...
The weather conditions over Texas at the time were highly conducive to the spread of fires, with unusually warm temperatures and gusty conditions prevailing over the region. [8] [9] The area scorched by the fire grew rapidly to 500,000 acres (780 sq mi; 200,000 ha) within 24 hours of ignition as strong winds fanned the flames eastward. [10]
Historic wildfires have decimated well over a million acres of land in the Texas panhandle. Here are some of the most compelling images.