Texas Fires, a visual

[Texas Ranger]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/texas-wildfires/100050/

[Bobus2003]

Pretty Impressive, Wish we could get our engines sent down their

[Woodhauler]

Its not impressive,its s shame! Sorry for the people who lost there lives and the ones who lost homes and property! Hope they get rain soon!

[Burlkraft]

WOW....Those are some sobering pictures.

Thanks for posting TR.

[Texas Ranger]

AFTER THE FIRE

[nativewolf]

Everywhere needs more burning, especially the SW, good to see them using some prescribed burns.  These are not areas where the scrub woodlands produces much timber, it is normal for there to be fires.  

[Texas Ranger]

Native Wolf, not when it is wild and one million acres.

[Southside]

Tremendous loss of livestock and property, not a benefit to anyone. 

[WhitePineJunky]

TR, is that after photo on your land? Hope you never got hit. 

[nativewolf]

TR - it sure is a massive amount of land.  It's good that there seemed to be some local expertise on prescribed burning.  Best of luck, good to see the grass remerging already, it happens really quickly after a fire.  

[Texas Ranger]

Not taking credit for any photos, all public sources.  As an old firedog this fire had me on the edge of my seat, even 8 hours away.  Worse fire, size wise, I was on was 1800 acres I fire bossed from 1500 feet up.  Worse fire for danger was less than 500 acres that crowned out and had us hustling for a while.  Crown fires were rare in Texas and would get your blood pumping. The million-acre fire was mostly range/brush land, still killed (I think) 3 folks and hundreds of head of cattle, destroyed hundreds of structures, and pretty much stayed out of developed areas. Fire does restart plant development, but at a cost when uncontrolled, cattle fodder being shipped in till green up.