saw on fox last night that the ag pilots have been using their choppers flying buckets of water, their buckets can only hold 70 gal tho.

they had it goin on for coordination, they showed them flying over one spot, come in on rotations and dump/leave.

Plus #1.

Posted over on THF :


A friend has a cousin with a farm/ranch in Canadian. They lost cattle, several vehicles, garage, horse and hay barn and all of their fencing. Spent the night shooting 850 horses, cattle and a pet donkey.


So, just got a report on some stuff around Canadian. They are in town now getting more bullets. A lot of houses and buildings burned in Canadian. So, this dude has a pretty decent size spread over there and runs 2500-4000 head between his cow/calf and yearling operation. They gathered the pasture closest to the house (didn't burn), which was the least affected, and had to shoot 10 out of 75. However, they've been moving to the worst hit places today and they got 75 gathered that they'll have to shoot all of them. They've got a long ways to go. They also have to take pictures of every single head for insurance purposes. That sucks. Another guy from Claude has a place over there and runs about 250 cows. They estimate they've lost about 150 and shot about 20 yesterday. They've got more to shoot today, but haven't even come close to finding them all. The bigger outfit has a trainwreck on their hands. It's brutal over there. Cows with eyes burned out, hair gone, udders burned up with calves on them who can't milk. They're just dealing with the walking right now and haven't even got to counting the dead ones, which are laying all over the place.

It's currently snowing and have about an inch on the ground, this is a blessing and hopefully the fire fighters can make significant headway. The gas company is going home by home turning gas back on hopefully they will get ours today. The bad news is the wind machine shows to start cranking back up starting Sunday. The body count is up to three, they were all elderly people who didn't or couldn't make it out during evacuation. There will likely be more as they sift through the ashes. The gas company just showed up and said we passed inspection at the meter and are lighting the pilots now.

Awful

Now estimated at over 1,000,000 acres and largest in Texas history. I pray for all affected. It sucks.

Dang, so tragic

Gut wrenching

Terrible tragedy I can’t think of anything much worse.

The leading edge of this fire stretches over 90 miles.

Crofoot Cattle Company is offering to take in horses and care for them fwiw.

your mouth is the only thing full of s

this is what is left of his house

This fire has got to be the largest I remember. And I lived in CA where fires, once going, don't stop. They eventually run out of things to burn.

Prayers to those affected, i cannot imagine