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Firefighters make progress against massive Texas wildfires

By The Abilene Reporter-News via AP

March 19, 2022

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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS VIA AP

Flames quickly spread through dry grass west of Abilene, Texas near Old Highway 80 Thursday, March 17. The grass fire quickly spread southeast, jumping the roadway, continuing in the same direction until it jumped South First Street and threatened a mobile home park which was evacuated.
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Two men lock the door to their home as they evacuate the Continental Villa mobile home park in Abilene, Texas Thursday March 17.
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A woman waits for her younger companions to finish retrieving belongings from their home as an Abilene police officer checks on other people evacuating the Continental Villa mobile home park in Abilene, Texas Thursday March 17. A quickly-moving grass fire west of town was closing on the park, forcing the evacuation of the homes.
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A family walks through smoke down the Arnold Blvd. frontage road after evacuating the Continental Villa mobile home park in Abilene, Texas Thursday March 17. A quickly-moving grass fire was heading that way, prompting officials to order the evacuation.
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Abilene, Texas firefighters connect a refill hose to the Brush 1 fire truck Thursday, March 17. Crews worked into the night fighting the grass fire west of Abilene that threatened a mobile home park and other structures.
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A cat wanders an empty street in the Continental Villa mobile home park in Abilene, Texas Thursday, March 17. Residents of the park were ordered to quickly evacuate as firefighters fought a grass fire quickly moving toward the community.
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An Abilene Fire Department fire Marshall directs traffic to turn around on South First Street at the Old Highway 80 intersection in Abilene, Texas Thursday March 17.
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Bre Riggs, left, takes the ceramic decorations from Priscilla Maynard who had retrieved from the surrounding ash of the home of their friends Raquel and Cruz Robles Friday, March 18, in Eastland County, Texas. The house burned the day before in Eastland County's Kidd Fire.
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An "X" on a pickup Friday signifies it had been checked and cleared by personnel responding to the fire in Carbon, Texas, Thursday, March 18. Many homes and other buildings in Carbon were consumed by the Eastland County fire.
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Fire burns in south Eastland County, Texas Friday, March 18. The Eastland Complex Fire consumed over 45,000 acres and claimed the life of Eastland County Deputy Barbara Fenley.
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Anna Olvera leans into Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as he puts his arm around her before presenting her with a flag in honor of her sister-in-law Barbara Fenley Friday, March 18, in Eastland, Texas. Fenley, a sergeant with the Eastland County Sheriff's Office, was killed in Thursday's wild fire.
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Priscilla Maynard holds a chicken while taking on the phone in front of a burned home Friday, March 18, near Carbon, Texas in Eastland County.
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Line workers replace burned utility poles on State Highway 6 between Carbon and Eastland, Texas, Friday, March 18. Dozens of workers were seen working to restore power and other utilities to the area after destructive wild fires the day before swept through.
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A National Guard helicopter flies toward a hotspot in the Kidd Fire with a full bucket of water over south Eastland County, Texas, Saturday, March 19.
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Members of the Carbon Volunteer Fire Department pass through a rural Eastland County, Texas, intersection while fighting the Kidd Fire, Saturday, March 19.

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