Texas homes have been destroyed and nearly 500 others evacuated in the surrounding communities, as wildfires eat through thousands of acres of extremely dry grass.
Eastland County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Deputy Barbara Fenley, who had been with the department since 2013, died in the blaze Thursday while moving residents out of harm’s way.“While evacuating people and going door-to-door, Fenley was last heard from that she was going to check on an elderly individual,” said a statement from the sheriff’s office. “With the extreme deteriorating conditions and low visibility from smoke, Sgt. Fenley ran off the roadway and was engulfed in the fire.
”Smoke from the Eastland Complex Fire drifted about 200 miles southeast to Houston, blanketing the nation’s fourth-largest city in a smelly haze. This prompted theThe possibility of more scorched earth and evacuations will remain in the coming days.It was reported that efforts to extinguish the fire is making it worse in what the agency called “extreme fire behavior.”A toppled tree, blackened ground and melted plastic flowers fall on the graves following the wildfire on March 18, 2022.
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