This past weekend, firefighters working to contain the widespread blazes in Texas received some much-needed assistancefrom Mother Nature in the form of rain, glorious rain.
Houston-area residents expressed relief for the half inch ofprecipitation, as one particularly destructive wildfire (which hadalready burned through 32,000 acres) was contained, along withother fires across the state. Perhaps most notably, Texas ForestService officials reported yesterday that the Bastrop fire—whichbegan during Labor Day weekend about 30 miles east of Austin,killing two people and ravaging at least 1,554 homes—was“95-percent contained.”
Although these blazes will be etched in the state’s record booksfor the magnitude of their destruction, they underscore the extentto which communities routinely rely on firefighters and other firstresponders to not only keep them safe but also to mitigate damages should disaster strike.
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