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The Ross Fire in Palo Pinto County has grown to at least 50,000 acres since it began Monday, burning several structures and prompting evacuations in nearby Jack County. FOX 4’s Alex Boyer joins LiveNOW’s Mike Pache with the latest on the wildfire.
A wind-driven grass fire west of Fort Worth, Texas, exploded to 50,000 acres overnight with just 5 percent containment, part of a record-setting national wildfire season that has stretched crews from Nevada to Washington State. The Ross Fire ignited Monday afternoon near the town of Palo Pinto, roughly 60 miles west of Fort Worth, and […] The post Ross Fire tears through 50,000 acres near Fort Worth as wildfires overwhelm crews across the West appeared first on American Almanac .
A wind-driven grass fire west of Fort Worth, Texas, exploded to 50,000 acres overnight with just 5 percent containment, part of a record-setting national wildfire season that has stretched crews from Nevada to Washington State. The Ross Fire ignited Monday afternoon near the town of Palo Pinto, roughly 60 miles west of Fort Worth, and ripped through dry ranchland so fast that local officials had little time to do anything but order people out. By Tuesday morning the blaze had jumped into neighboring Jack County to the north, forced the closure of a highway, and left firefighters scrambling to protect homes and lives with almost no containment to show for it. The Palo Pinto Emergency Services Department reported the fire grew to 18,000…Open
