Firefighters and first responders from the Texas A&M Forestry, local VFD and interlocal fire departments battled Texas wildfire on record this past week. The Eastland Complex Fire resulted in mass evacuations, three deaths, the loss of about 100 structures and other property damage. The city of Carbon was destroyed.
Wildfires wreak havoc in Central Texas
Deputy Sgt. Barbara Fenley died while assisting with evacuations in Carbon.
Multiple wildfires continued to scorch parts of Texas Monday after igniting under dangerous fire weather conditions in the state last week and this past weekend causing the destruction of many homes and the deaths of an Eastland deputy sheriff and two firefighters, one from Texas and one Oklahoma.
The wildfires, tagged by the Texas A&M Forestry as the Eastland Complex, had burned ne...