State lawmakers and agriculture officials are still assessing the full extent of the damage caused by the record-setting wildfires that ravaged the Texas Panhandle in late February, including the Smokehouse Creek fire, the largest in state history.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2024/04/08/482745/we-need-to-understand-the-devastation-texas-panhandle-ranchers-describe-losses-from-wildfires/

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Texas’ top emergency manager told a panel of lawmakers that the state should establish its own firefighting aircraft division after a series of wildfires scorched the Panhandle region earlier this year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/public-safety/2024/04/03/482480/texas-emergency-director-calls-for-firefighting-air-force-after-historic-panhandle-fires/

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