Texas nuclear weapons facility pauses operations as wildfires spread through rural Panhandle

Texas wildfire smoke reaches Borderland

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Borderland is starting to see smoke from the wildfires happening in parts of the Texas Panhandle, according to El Paso's National Weather Service. The NWS says visibility in certain areas is reduced to four miles. The El Paso Office of Emergency Management is asking for residents to stay indoors as much as possible. No further information has been released. This story will be updated once we learn more.

Texas wildfire smoke moving through Borderland, causing low visibility

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- ABC-7 has received several calls about the smell of smoke and hazy weather throughout El Paso County Wednesday morning. According to the National Weather Service in El Paso via Twitter, visibilities across the eastside of El Paso have dropped down to four miles due to smoke. They state the smoke originated from the wildfires that have been impacting the Texas Panhandle vicinity the past few days and it may impact vulnera…

Raging Wildfire Threatens Texas Oil Rigs, Refinery

Texas Panhandle oil refineries and cattle ranches remain under critical threat as wildfires continue to spread, now consuming 500,000 acres after having prompted the temporary evacuation of the United States’ primary nuclear weapons assembly plant. Earlier on Wednesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott had declared a disaster for 60 counties being affected by four separate wildfires that have so far decimated more than 320,000 acres, with shifting win…

'Smokehouse Creek Fire,' other wildfires cause destruction in Western Oklahoma

A wildfire that started in Texas and spread into Oklahoma on Tuesday forced evacuations and burned homes and cars, hitting the towns of Gage and Shattuck hard.

The Texas Panhandle is on Fire

Current conditions: Hundreds of people hunkered down in Chicago O’Hare’s emergency shelter during severe storms • Volcanic ash delayed flights out of Mexico City • The tree pollen count in Washington, DC, has been extremely high. THE TOP FIVE 1. Large wildfires burn out of control in Texas Massive wildfires are burning in the Texas Panhandle, fueled by strong winds and dry conditions. At least four fires have scorched more than 500,000 acres so …