LUBBOCK, Texas ? A forest service official says wildfire conditions in much of Texas are comparable to those of March 2006 when a week of blazes killed a dozen people and thousands of livestock in the Panhandle.
Texas Forest Service operations director Mark Stanford said Monday that the extreme drought, low humidity and strong winds affecting much of Texas are akin to conditions five years ago.
Wildfires killed six people in one day in what was Texas' deadliest wildfire month on record.
No one has died in wildfires that have burned about 1,400 square miles of land in Texas this year. But weekend blazes in West Texas destroyed more than 60 homes in two communities, and crews are trying to contain fires elsewhere in the state.
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