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Feb. 27—AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday issued a disaster declaration for 60 Texas counties in response to widespread wildfire activity throughout the state. Additional counties may ...
In Hutchinson County, northeast of Amarillo, the so-called Smokehouse Creek Fire had burned around 250,000 acres and was 0% contained Tuesday evening, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service, a ...
Following an increase in low-level winds, the fire grew to the second-largest Texas wildfire by the afternoon, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's disaster declaration stated that 60 counties were affected. [14] Eight hundred and fifty thousand acres were scorched. [15]
Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 51 Texas counties "to ensure Texans and at-risk regions have the resources and personnel needed to respond to this storm,” he said in a statement.
Texas declared a severe weather disaster declaration for 121 counties of its 254 counties, while the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas located in Polk County declared a state of emergency. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided federal disaster aid for 67 counties.
On September 8, Texas State Governor Rick Perry declared 88 Texas state counties a disaster area in preparation for Hurricane Ike, expected to hit the Texas coast as early as Saturday morning, which included placing 7,500 Texas Military Forces troops on standby.
Last week’s storms took place as the Houston area and several Texas counties to the north were ... More than 48,000 people in the affected counties that were declared disaster areas have already ...
A Texas county has issued a declaration of local state disaster for the April 8 solar eclipse. Will more counties follow suit? The whole of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, home to around ...