Just talked to the Rancher we lease from and we have dodged a bullet so far. The Mexican ranch hand says the fire in our area is north of 380 between Graham moving to Bryson. I hope it stays north. I am glad I have insurance on the rhino and trailer. If your north of my lease I hope it skips you.

I have been sitting her watching it on the news and wonding if any of yall in that area were being affected!

Looks like the Grasslands are in danger too!

where are yall seeing this info?

the news and I talked to the rancher

Hell....i got smoke all around me in CORINTH!!!!

I just talked to my lease neighbor and our front pasture burned up but none of our feeders and blinds got hit.....barn is okay too.

The fire is mostly in Montague County @ Sunset. Denton smells like a big Cigar also.

I just went outside with the dogs here in Rowlett, and you can see a light smokey haze and smell it too!

Yep.....we lost about 115 acres but it was coastal and briars mostly.

Its about 6:45 PM and I have a front row seat for this fire. It has covered a 8-9 mile path in 3 hours. Several barns and a house have been lost. There are 2 more fires in the County right now, and they are large also. Hopefully we can stop it on Hwy 4, If not it will burn to hwy 281 near Perrin.

ANOTHER REASON I LOVE THIS FORUM!!!

TexasLefty just offerred to come out and help me at my place......he does not even KNOW me! Yet a fellow THF'r is willing to step up for a brother......I am telling you....when OBAMAM screws all this up....I am hangin' with my THF brudders!!!! Bro-tha has a place around my fire or on the deck of my boat ANYTIME!!!!!!

we are burning up here in montague co there is around 5 fires as of an hour ago.i just came home from gainsville and had to drive into it in saint jo it was right on the south side of hwy82.we need more rain and less wind everybody else does to

Thats a bad one in Montague Co. We have another 1500 acre plus fire burning from Squaw Mountain about 2 miles north of 2190 heading East, and it has already made it across 148 and is around Crooked Creek Rd.

It was really smokey the last hour planting corn this evening here in southern Fannin County....

Southern OK is getting hit hard right now too

Saw this earlier BigCountryhomepage

Be nice to hear reports from Brown County, Eastland etc...

Was outside this evening here in collin county and smelled the smoke in the air. Had a fire on our place last year from a power line snapping. If you guys in our western counties are in need of anything post up here and hopefully the Brotherhood can help out.

Morning update Big Country Looks like there was a 1K acre fire in Grosvenor, Brown Co. The one in Eastland is 7K acres. Pray for rain. This weekends rain can't come too soon.

I was planning on heading out to the place in Montague today. It is just a few miles East of town, so I am VERY curious as to just what is left out there. If I can get my truck put back together, I will at least try and go see how bad my place got hit.

My place got it about 2 months ago. It just got a long strip down the fence, about 50 yards wide, and about 3 or 4 hundred yards long. Fire fighters, ran a bull dozed fire block around our camp house, and multiple barns. Luckily the only thin hurt by it was the dozer tore up our lateral line drain pipe from the house, to the pit. They did smoothen up our rocky roads a bit though, pretty good trade.

This AM

Associated Press/AP Online

By MURRAY EVANS
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. - Fire crews in Oklahoma and Texas raced Thursday to control wind-whipped wildfires that destroyed dozens of homes, seriously injured two people, forced evacuations and shut down parts of a major highway.
Howling wind that had gusted to more than 60 mph grounded firefighting efforts by air in both states and drove blazes that scorched neighborhoods like "a war zone," Midwest City police Chief Brandon Clabes said.
"The wind is the biggest issue, because we can't get ahead of the fires," Midwest City Fire Marshal Jerry Lojka said. By nightfall, wind gusts dropped to about 30 mph in many areas.
Oklahoma County Sheriff John Wetsel said an estimated 100 homes or other structures were damaged or destroyed in the northeast part of the county, which includes Midwest City.
Clabes said 20 homes were destroyed in one neighborhood alone. He described burned-out housing tracts, blackened vehicles and a fire that erupted at a broken natural gas line.
Two small towns in Texas also were devastated by wildfires. Sunset and Stoneburg in Montague County were left in a heap of debris and ashes after several dozen homes were destroyed. Television news footage showed burning houses and oil tanks and the charred remnants of buildings. No injuries were immediately reported.
The Oklahoma Department of Health reported 34 injuries related to the fires across that state. A firefighter battling a blaze in Lincoln County was hospitalized in stable condition with major burns and someone was severely injured after losing control of a vehicle on a smoke-covered road in Stephens County, officials said.
Two firefighters were treated for exhaustion, and two others were treated for smoke inhalation.
Crews already helping with blazes were being redirected because "there are fires everywhere," Chandler Emergency Management Director Larry Hicks said.
"We've got fires breaking out where they've already been put out," he said.
In Midwest City, some residents in the eastern part of the city of about 54,000 were told to head to a community center. The Lincoln County town of Sparks, which has about 150 residents, was also told to evacuate because of a large wildfire.
The National Weather Service, at the request of local authorities, relayed emergency evacuation orders over weather radios, which residents in this tornado-prone area are used to monitoring. The orders were also broadcast on television and radio. In some cases, authorities went door to door to warn residents.
Tricia Smith, who left her home in Midwest City, said the fire engulfed parts of her neighborhood.
"We thought we were safe, but in 30 minutes the fire went everywhere," she said.
Most of the state was under high wind warnings and red flag warnings, which indicate extreme fire danger, and the eastern half of the state was under a tornado watch.
Near Lindsay, about 55 miles south of Oklahoma City, 13 homes were destroyed, said Eric Johnson, Purcell's city manager. At least six homes and one church burned to the ground in Carter County and the number of destroyed properties was expected to rise, said Chester Agan, county assistant emergency management director.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the Oklahomans who have been impacted by the wildfires and severe weather tonight," Gov. Brad Henry said in a statement. "When daylight breaks tomorrow, we will be able to better assess damages and determine our next step in helping people recover and rebuild."
Interstate 35, the state's main north-south highway, was closed in Carter County as well as in Payne County, where at least 12 agencies were battling a blaze estimated at five to six miles wide, said Kirk Mittlestet, emergency management director for Stillwater. Wind-whipped grass fires in western Oklahoma also closed State Highway 152.
The fires that swept through Sunset and Stoneburg in Texas were among several totaling nearly 40 square miles that led to the evacuation of several towns northwest of Fort Worth, including Montague, Saint Jo and Bowie. Earlier in the day, a Bowie elementary school was evacuated, as were an intermediate school and a high school in Clyde in Callahan County.
Firefighters were battling a nearly 8-square-mile wildfire in Wichita County near Electra that destroyed an agriculture company's buildings and warehouses, authorities said. Thick, black smoke from burning debris caused authorities to shut down part of State Highway 287 for several hours.
"The smoke was so heavy that you couldn't see, and it was pretty intense for a little while," Wichita County Sheriff David Duke said. "At one point in the county we had 10 fires burning, and we were going from one to the other."
Authorities evacuated about 800 residents and a nursing home in Electra, but they were allowed to return home by evening as the fire was contained, Duke said. Several buildings in other parts of the county also were destroyed, he said.
Crews were fighting a 6-square-mile fire that destroyed three homes in Archer County, east of Archer City, about 90 miles northwest of Fort Worth. To the south, residents near Breckenridge in Stephens County were evacuated when a nearly 5-square-mile fire threatened an apartment complex, the Texas Forest Service said.
A fire at Lake Mineral Wells State Park destroyed one home, Parker County spokesman Joel Kertok said. He said another blaze in several Hudson Oaks subdivisions that destroyed four structures was 90 percent contained, and residents who had been evacuated were allowed to return home.
In Brown County, firefighters were battling a blaze near Bangs that destroyed one home and threatened three dozen more.
Blazes also were burning in parts of Eastland, Hamilton, San Saba, Jones, Palo Pinto, Hood, Cooke, Young and Jack counties, the Texas Forest Service said.
More than 93 percent of Texas is under some stage of drought, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday.
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Associated Press writers Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Texas and Angela K. Brown in Fort Worth, Texas, contributed to this report.
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Anybody seen anything east of Perrin(Southern Jack)? Wondered if my stuff is still there?