These will provide low-interest loans to qualifying homeowners, renters, and businesses in the affected communities following the Smokehouse Creek Fire and the Windy Deuce Fire.
The Tom Green County Sheriff's Office commemorated the lives of Deputy Samuel Leonard and Sgt. Stephen Jones by dedicating stretches of local highways in their honor.
hese SBA declarations would make federal assistance available in the form of disaster loans for Carson, Hemphill, and Hutchinson counties and their contiguous counties.
The Texas A&M Forest Service reports three major wildfires wreaking havoc across the Texas Panhandle: Smokehouse Creek, Windy Deuce, and Grape Vine Creek.
With devastating consequences, this blaze has claimed the lives of two individuals, decimated approximately 1,600 square miles of agriculture production, and prompted a widespread response from communities across Texas and Oklahoma.
San Angelo Fire Chief Patrick Brody has dispatched four firefighters and a Type 6 brush fire fighting truck to the Panhandle region as part of a broader statewide effort to combat the approximately 500,000 acres ablaze across the Texas Panhandle and northwestern Oklahoma.
