Posted on 09/01/2023 6:11:29 PM PDT by Libloather
Officials in Texas are urging residents to flee their homes after a massive wildfire broke out north of Houston.
According to the Walker County Office of Emergency Management, a major fire erupted Friday afternoon in a wooded area along Lost Indian Camp Road.
The latest update from officials said that the fire had stretched to encompass 100 acres and had been contained by five percent.
Just hours previously, the fire was estimated to be spread out across 500 acres, which has prompted officials to ask those living in the area to flee.
The latest update from the Texas Forest Service said: 'The fire in Walker County is an estimated 1,000 acres and 5% contained.
'Fire behavior is high to extreme. Aviation resources are assisting ground crews with cooling the fire and slowing spread. Dozers work to build containment line.'
In a notice shared on social media the Walker County Office of Emergency Management said: 'Major fire on Lost Indian Camp Road off FM247.
'FM247 is closed both lanes from Pinedale to FM2989. Evacuation recommended everything within 3 miles of Lost Indian Camp Road. Air attack is dropping water.
ABC reported that authorities have now closed a six and a half mile stretch of the FM.
It remains unclear at this time as to what caused the fire, and if anybody had been injured.
According to a statement issued by Governor Greg Abbott, the state is currently experiencing triple-digit temperatures, with more than 98 percent of the state experiencing drought.
Neighbors also told Fox26 that homes have been burned and that livestock has been evacuated from the area.
Images and video shared on social media show thick dark plumes of smoke leeching up into the air as the fire burns.
Footage taken from the air shows just how large the wildfire...
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“Fire erupted. Just gotta be global warming.”
I won’t call it ‘global warming’ since the globe is far bigger than Texas and especially one small part of Texas, but the weather has been very dry in the Eastern half of Texas, and very hot - so no one should be surprised at fires breaking out.
Illegal invasion forces. Guys of military age coming across. All these fires can’t be coincidence, food distribution centers, random brush fires, etc.
It has not rained for a month in the Houston area.
Arson.
They have varying reasons for it, ... for instance Bill Gates thinks that Trees cause Global Warming.
Arson”
Yep climate terrorists.
Ban matches and the idiots that throw cigarettes from their vehicles.
Some coincidences are not really coincidences after all.
Bill Gates thinks. That is the cause of many of our problems.
yet more arson.
More than likely a cigarette butt. Probably started on the shoulder of the road.
Definitely. And it’s being committed by the climate change crazies.
There’s something to burn in TX???
When we drove through there on a family vacation many years ago, I remember it primarily being desert like and scrub. Don’t know how close we were to Houston, though. Just that it was desolate and barren.
And the idiots go an *invent* a device to remove CO2 from the air, when trees do it for free, and all anyone has to do is plant some.
The eastern quarter of the state looks the same as the forests from Louisiana to Virginia. This fire is in pineywoods.
Bill Gates needs to be disappeared.
The democrats are terrorizing the US using fire.
Great. More directed energy weapons destroying homes not in democrat controlled urban areas.
Pine burns pretty well. I could see a pine forest fire getting out of control very easily.
100 acres is a “massive wildfire”?????
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