Texas wildfire continues to spread
The Smokehouse Creek Wildfire continues to spread thanks to high winds and drought like conditions over the Texas Panhandle.
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Over 5000,000 acres has burned in North Texas as a result of wildfires that continue to rage on with little to no progress on containment. Over 1,000 people have been affected by these fires affected 621 homes.
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Satellite images show dark scorched marks in northern Texas as a result of the long-standing wildfire.
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Winds out of the north have kept smoke plumes drafting to the southwest, but as a high pressure system moves to the northeast, winds will switch out of the southwest driving smoke plumes over Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa throughout the second half of the week.