Important Takeaways:
- Texas Wildfire Causes ‘Catastrophic Losses’ to Cattle Herds: ‘Farmers & Ranchers Are Losing Everything’
- The devastating impact of the Texas wildfires is beginning to emerge as the cattle industry braces for historic losses.
- One of several wildfires raging in the Texas Panhandle has now grown to become the largest in state history.
- The Smokehouse Creek fire has been burning since Monday and has so far destroyed over one million acres of land in Texas alone.
- However, emergency crews have made little progress in containing it.
- It has so far torched the most land than any other recorded wildfire in the history of the state.
- The same blaze has also destroyed 31,500 acres in Oklahoma, according to CNN.
- Two people have died so far in the fires.
- Ranchers have lost thousands of livestock with many more likely to be euthanized.
- Many homes and other buildings have been lost to the flames, as well.
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