Planned burn may have caused Texas wildfire that's forcing hundreds to evacuate: Officials

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

AUSTIN, Texas — A wildfire in a Central Texas state park on Tuesday forced the evacuation of dozens of homes in the city of Bastrop — the site of a deadly blaze more than a decade ago — and officials said a prescribed burn may be to blame.

Bastrop County and local fire management officials told reporters Tuesday night that while it was too early to conclusively determine the cause of the fire, it was likely linked to the planned 150-acre prescribed burn in Bastrop County State Park.

“We do think that it is likely that embers from the prescribed fire were the cause of the fire outside the park," said Carter Smith, the executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

The Texas parks department initiated the prescribed burn at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Smith said. It's the second prescribed burn in that area of Bastrop County State Park since the Bastrop Complex wildfire of 2011 that burned about 53 square miles and destroyed nearly 1,700 homes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/central-texas-wildfire-forces-hundreds-071931705.html

[Bayard]

1. Burn 150 acres at one time?

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Used to scare the crap out of me when I'd come down out of the mountains in Calif, and they'd be doing an orchard burn below--still during fire season!