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Originally posted by Max Hedges
A fire approximately one and a half hours west of us at a town called Junee has burnt 25000 hectares, 5 homes, 15000 head of stock and other various buildings and fences. The fire my have been started by a cigarette butt thrown out a car window. I went to one fire 60 kms from here which burnt 4000 hectares and 2000 head of stock on New Years Day. Others went to a fire at Boorowa about an hour north of here yesterday, which burnt 500 hectares. Everyone is getting edgey as there has been a lot of wind with really high temperatures, thankfully today so far is cool at 19 celcius still at 9.30 am.
Max
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Hey Max, unfortunately N. Texas is in the middle of a drought right now also, we've barely received 1/2 of our annual rainfall which is a scant 36". (Parts of British Columbia where I used to live receive in excess of 200"!) The weather continues to be unseasonably warm (high today 84!) which with low humidity and strong winds have turned north Texas into a tinderbox. Every evening the news reports a new grass fire which has threatened a town somewhere. Last night a wildfire burnt 8000 acres and the entire town of Ringgold. Governor Perry has declared several counties disaster areas and is asking for Federal assistance.