The bill, a response to the historic wildfires that engulfed the Texas Panhandle last year, now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s ...

Texas lawmakers are stepping up support for firefighters following last year’s devastating Panhandle wildfires.

C ANADIAN, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – One year after a cluster of deadly wildfires ignited across the Texas Panhandle and scorched more than 1.14 million acres of land, community members and local ...

Laurie Ezzell Brown had covered many wildfires in the drought-plagued Texas Panhandle. But nothing prepared her for what she saw after the Smokehouse Creek Fire last year. "Everyone I know lost ...

As the committee discussed the bills, most of Texas was under wildfire risk. A combination of weather conditions — including hurricane-force winds and drought — hit the Panhandle and South Plains.

Bigger fires ravaged the Texas Panhandle in March. The Windmill and High Lonesome fires both burned over 23,000 acres each before they were contained. The fuel reduction grants are not available ...