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Texas wildfires spread

TEXAS PANHANDLE - FEBRUARY 27:  In this handout photo provided by the Texas A&M Forest Service, fire crosses a road in the Smokehouse Creek fire on the evening of February 27, 2024 in the Texas panhandle. The blaze has grown to more than 850,000 acres since igniting Monday, making it the second largest wildfire in Texas state history.  (Photo by Texas A&M Forest Service via Getty Images)
TEXAS PANHANDLE - FEBRUARY 27: In this handout photo provided by the Texas A&M Forest Service, fire crosses a road in the Smokehouse Creek fire on the evening of February 27, 2024 in the Texas panhandle. The blaze has grown to more than 850,000 acres since igniting Monday, making it the second largest wildfire in Texas state history. (Photo by Texas A&M Forest Service via Getty Images)
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2:34 PM EST, March 1, 2024, updated: 3:05 PM EST, March 1, 2024

The ongoing wildfire is already the biggest in Texas history. The climate changes are taking their toll in the Southern States of the United States. Wilfires are causing serious damage and are massive problem. When are they going to stop? Though to say.

The fires are taking the biggest are in the history of Texas, that is above 1 million acres which is the area enoguh to cover the state of Rhode Island. The local authorities including Texas A&M Forest Service are doing everything in their power to contain the massive strike of nature. Three people have been confirmed dead. The services are hopeful not to increase this number, but everything can happen from this point on.

The vast amount of farmland covered in black

The coverage from drones and helicopters gives accounts of large areas of the farmlands of Texas burned to blackened earth. There are sever number of houses left burn to the rubbles.

The fire has spread also towards Oklahoma. Only three percent of it is reported to have been contained.

Climate changes

The wildfire problems are onlu going to continue on as the climate changes are becoming more and more harmful to the environment. It is expected that the wilfires will become larger and more frequent in the future. Other parts of the world are also touched as Spain is also known to have been suffering from wildfires and droughts.

Sources: NBC News

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