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Loss, damage ‘catastrophic’ in Texas as fire crews make progress

Texas A&M Forest Service Blue Team Operations Section Chief Mike Brod said in a Monday morning update that crews had another “really good, productive day” on the fire line Sunday as they continued to control and mop up the fire perimeters of several Texas Panhandle wildfires. In addition to the Smokehouse Creek Fire, which last week became the largest wildfire in the state’s history and the second-largest wildfire in the nation’s history, 56 wildfires have burned more than 1.26 million acres in the state since Feb. 25.

Brod said there were a couple of flare ups in the Smokehouse…

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