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Please pray for all those that are being effected by some serious wild fires right now.  I know Leon and Bastrop county and I am sure many others right now.  These high winds and dry conditions are a worst case scenario, and they are sparking up all over.

Matt I haven't heard the details but they had a pretty good fire going out west of Linden. These are some bad conditions we are under. No rain in the forcast. We are atleast looking at some cooler temps.

How far west Timmy?  Out near my kin folks place?

Over toward Cave Springs and Bear Creek. I believe that's across 155 from your kin folk.

Yeah I just talked to Kerry and he said that the fire got to within a half mile of their house but the north wind kept it just south of him.  

Please pray for Derrick on here and the Logans, they are all evacuated and I know Derrick's kinfolks lost their barns/equipment already and likely a good deal of livestock.

Here in Cameron today we had a grass fire in town that burnt four five houses down,  I heard there was a big grass fire out east of town another one west of town pretty big from what I heard and still growing i think.

Matt did he say if they had it under control?

Yea there is one close to my rig over here I'm freestone county by donie tx.
We are on stand by right now in case we have to evacuate.

He didn't say Timmy, I know there is a big fire between Robbins and Flynn right now too and a huge one near Columbus.

 Some friends of ours on thier way home from Oklahoma said that there is a wildfire on the side of I-75 in Oklahoma. I hope that everyone stays safe from all of these fires.

Girl you know Texas could burn all the way to 59 and it would stop on the west side and never cross the road, it is so wet east of the HWY yall arent even in the drought  ;)

the 1 up here in the mts.has burnt over 30000 acres.and still going

Last I heard for the freestone county area was the one that was being called the 1356 fire is under control but the one in personville is still burning hard... I evac'd me horses and dogs a few hours ago and am in fairfield.

 Nah, we only got like 1/4 inch. Didn't even amount to a good puddle.   :(

This sux we been on stand by since 6:00

i can see both of the fires in leon county from my front porch

Dang that's not good. Becareful buddy. I was about to txt ya an check on ya. Everything ok for now?

ya its all good as of right now thanks man

Matt the fire Timmy is talking about is on the avinger side of pruitt lake.  Fire is still going

TImmy- the fire went right to the cabin that the sheltons own now next to pruitt lake.

we had 450 acres burn to day and 4 more fires  in and around gladewater and whiteoak texas

We just rolled in to Flatonia with eight stock trailers to start hauling out a friends cattle, and to pick up my Brandy dog...gonna be fun penning some of his brahman cattle tonight...

anyone heard from Ensor??? don't know if he's been evacuated but i know he lives around Bastrop.....stuff is shut down all around there and a lot of places are evacuated.  We've got a couple fires around Pfluegerville and just south of us at Steiner ranch... 25 homes lost and something like 2,000 in danger.  may sound crappy but for my sake i hope the winds stay out of the north/north east

also...... heard there's fires outside columbus??  hope they haven't gotten close to Uglydogs or Oakridge way.

There is one in Navarrow County, they evacuated the entire city of Navarro according to the news, there was one pretty close to my house but luckily didnt make it this far, would have had hell getting all of our dogs, horse and our family our fast....wish it would rain

Been talking with ensor this evening. Things don't sound good for his in laws property. As of about five minutes ago the fire was at the north edge of his property too.   I am sitting here in cistern at the besch ranch looking at fires to the north and west of us. Hard to judge the distance, but.with the high north winds I imagine the fire can cover some ground in short order.
Due to the huge cracks in the ground we decided to wait until daylight to pen the cows. Just hope the fire holds off long enough.

well glad to hear he's at least physically alright.  hate to hear that about his property and his in-laws place.  ya'll be safe out there.  doesn't look like mother nature is gonna give em a chance to get ahead of this thing til later tomorrow or wednesday at best.

I'm out here in columbas and the fire yesterday got most of my hunting land and my horse! Please pray for the other folks that had to evacuate the area

where about in columbus it hit??  i know some folks around that area

It hit several places I know it hit out on 105 and then my land out on 806! This is the 3rd time I've lost a horse to a fire! When I lived up in colorado city we had a big fire that got our house and we couldn't get into the horses and they spooked and the next day we got in to see all three horses dead! But I'm not for sure on all the places in columbas but I know it was bad

anybody hear from Ensor today?  Was gonna try to drop supplies at the Bastrop Emergency Cntr but completely shut off from my side.  If you donate money to the redcross make sure you specify it's for the Central Texas Fires or it goes to their general fund. Just a heads up.

I was fighting fires yesterday.  It almost felt impossible to keep up with it.  Only lost one home but we were able to save 26 homes, and around 2000 rolls of hay.  A lot of places in the area were small 10-20 acres and they all lost everybit of grass or leaves for there livestock.

Dang Chris, yall stay safe!! Prayers sent.

Fire just east of Columbus and still going.  We had a fire just south of Oakridge yesterday and we also sent a truck too help out at Columbus, we're on stand by and looks like 3 or 4 more days to go.
Did get in a short hunt this morning before they called us out again.  VFD need your support and understanding, we can only do so much.

ya'll stay safe Mr. Mason....good luck to ya'll and glad to hear it's skirted Oakridge and ya'll haven't had any trouble.

.We have an URGENT NEED for horse transport for evacuation in Bastrop County, TX. Barns that were used to house evacuees are now in the fire's path. Rt 304 still open both ways. Anyone in the area who can help, please call Beth at 512-467-4893 or Rachel at 512-581-2940 . There at least 43 horses in immediate need at their rescue, surely there will be more.

how are ya'll in Waller and Montgomery counties holding up??  word has it there's some serious blazes started up over ya'lls way

the fire is getting close to our house they just told us we needed to leave damn this sux

we got fire a couple miles up the road to the north too  :o .....20acres in size for the time being, only bad thing is there's a ton of dried up cedars and other tinder between here and there and not much to stop cause the country's so rough.

prayers for ya'll homes and your families safety brother.

Our prayers are with ya`ll down south, the fires up here yesterday scared the crap out us. Thank godness no homes or lifes were lost.
Some houses had the fire burn right up to them, lot fence building and cattle moving now.

We have four going right now. One is pretty bad it has burned up over 3200 acres the last count I heard. 7 structures had burned that was at 6 this afternoon. The wind has died down but its spread so far they are having trouble getting it under control. They have had quite a few new evacuees this afternoon.

Bastrop state park 75% is burned. Five hundred houses lost and nearly twenty thousand acres burned. Reported by channel seven news out of austin. From Lexington we can see the smoke and glow from 35 miles away. A couple of big fires in Austin that have burned up twenty house and couple hundred acres by lake Travis in steiner ranch community.  Also fires in Leander, Pflugerville, dripping springs, la grange

yeah the one out by Pedernales river is the next largest in our area something like 8-9,000acres.  Bastrop was at like 26,000acres and 476 houses destroyed about 2 or 3 hours ago.  Leander-One up the road from my house was 135acres and 14 houses destroyed. Steiner ranch destroyed like 25 houses and damaged around another 30.  it's horrible. 

Derick Ensor home still in danger those fires keep flaring up as is Logans posre the fre was hust the other side of river from his house about 3 hours ago.

Matt Aggie has now been evacuated, fire still moving

Praying that ya'll get some much needed rain, and for all that have been affected.

damn it.... saying a prayer for those guys.  hopefully we'll wake up to some relief in the battle those guys are fighting.  i feel guilty cause i had been praying for cooler weather......i'll take 120's temps and NO fires if god lends us a hand.

Matt did not have to evacuate, I was mis informed, they were close to it though. They are okay this morning too. Waiting to hear from Smithville crew.

I tell you what the Media would be cover celbrity on every channel but this fire has consumed thousands of lives for the past few days and all they are covering is a few major areas . This fire was from Bastrop nearly all the way to interstate 10, Another burned Gonzales up the day before. I don't see it on the news anywhere very little on any maps or current imformation about any of the people, properties, livestock effected by all of this.

Facebook and phone texting has been the way to let me know my close friends have been okay and how far the flames are from me. AS of yesterday had the wind not laid or shifted slightly I ws worried I was going to have to evacuate the millin animals I have. I have been staying on top of this for the past two days and calling around check points to see. So many people in between me and the fire did not eve know it was coming or burning at all. It was not on the radio either and houston station that we get did not cover it 35 miles north of me. Frustrating!!!! on top of being so sad for those that have lost so much.

I have birds coming to my feeders that must be trying to stay out of the smoke.

Yeah we were packed and ready to go but luckily they didn't come make us leave.  My parents were forced to leave their house and now cannot get back to it because of road closures.  Everyone keep praying, there are around 80-100 people that lost their homes in my area.

DEmoon posted thgis on Facebook about 45 minutes ago

I don't know if ya'll saw it but Derek said his house was OK.  Glad to hear you didn't have to evacuate Matt. 

Krystal, I hear you.  I had a fire about 2 miles from the house that burned up right around 900 acres and i couldn't find out anything about it....even the county didn't have much to offer.  luckily they've got it 75% contained and the wind has died down considerably. If it wasn't for the smoke i wouldn't have known it was there.

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taken and hour half ago in Bastrop the fires are still going

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this one was yesterday evening smoke cloud right after the wind laid and you can see Cistern/Rosanky/Smithville sky from my property, wish could say it was a beautiful sunset but it was not

Coming home thru Victoria yesterday, the smoke was thick about half way to Cuero. A buddy said it was all the way to Austwell. Seems like half of Texas must be on fire right now.

The smoke is killing us down here. We had ash actually falling south of Cuero. Been working with my face covered the past two days.

well we got updated that the fire that was in Leander is being considered Arson......no further information has been given.  What kind of a-hole does stuff like that?

As far as im concerned that is attempted murder! We have several around here that they suspect is arson. You would have to be throwed off to set a fire!

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this one was sent to me by cell phone off of 304 I think is road number ??? across from Hayne Prairie Auction /Watterson Ranch Road/ texaco  station around 3 today i believe

The big fire in our area has burnt 14,000 acres. Still not under control.

Here is some good very current info on friends and family and fires in the rosanky -smithville areas if anybody else is needing it

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Smithville-Texas-Wildfire-Info/268475523177656?ref=ts&sk=wall

I just heard alot of something flying overhead, don't know what it was but it was loud

Here are few pics I took of the fire yesterday. Still very smokey and a lot if ash falling and choppers/planes flying around.
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This picture was sent to me, it was about 3 miles north of my parents when the fire crossed 1488
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This red oak leaf floated over 15 miles and landed at my buddies place.
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I'm with u guys on the sorry coverage from the news I own some property in dobbin little ways from magnolia in the fm 1488 area and my wife has family and friends between there and plantersville. We didn't even know there was a fire there until she talked to her grandma. If y'all get any info on the fire in that area please post it up. God bless the fire fighters.

Bar W, her are some links that will get you faster and much more accurate info. on that area of Texas, Hope this helps.

 www.facebook.com/montgomerycountyfireinfo -Montgomery County

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Wild-Fires-Location-Updates/134928273270064 - TeXas Wild Fire Location

http://www.facebook.com/WallerCountyFireInfo - Waller County

feeding cattle south of Bastrop on burnt pasture land
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look at this link fires map. It gives latitude and longitude, yellow is fires still going from days before whit/grey is contained and red are new
http://tx.dtswildfire.com/

two hour old update on Bastrop complex

From KVUE News: New from the TX Forest Service: BASTROP COUNTY COMPLEX, Bastrop County. 33,038 acres. The State Operations Center is reporting 30 percent containment. Most of the forward progress of the fire has stopped, but significant intense burning continues in the interior. Twenty subdivisions remain evacuated. An assessment team has confirmed 785 homes have been destroyed. Two civilians were found dead yesterday as search crews went through the charred subdivisions.

for current info to follow this at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bastrop-County-Weather/188244027909222

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Aerial photo taken Monday afternoon. Photo courtesy Fayette County Sgt. Ron Naumann

By Dave Mundy/manager@gonzalescannon.com
Posted September 6, 2011 - 12:51pm

BASTROP — Firefighting-trained volunteers from around the state converged on Bastrop and Smithville Tuesday to lend a hand to the beleaguered local firefighters battling the Bastrop County Complex Fire — only to be sent away as federal officials arrived at the scene and took command, apparently because local officials never made a formal request for volunteers.

“We were at the station getting set up into strike teams, and this guy came up and said that the U.S. Forest Service had ‘assumed control of the situation, and that ‘If you don’t have a vehicle that squirts water, go home,’” said Gordon Greer of Kirbyville, who drove all night Monday to arrive in the town beset by the worst wildfire in Texas history. “You’ve got guys who had driven all night long from Corpus Christi and Brownsville on their own dime, and they turned them away. He was really a (bleep) about it.

“There was a whole line of beige cars that came in this morning, tinted windows and such,” Greer said.

A spokesperson with the U.S. National Interagency Incident Center, Jennifer Jones, confirmed that federal group of several different agencies would be assuming command in Bastrop County around 1 p.m. Tuesday, but had not done so when the firefighting volunteers were told to leave. April Saginor with the Texas Forest Service said her agency had not given any such order, to her knowledge, but promised to provide an update later in the day.

The question is apparently one of protocol, however.

The Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management announced via its Facebook account Tuesday afternoon that “Any fire mutual aid requests would always come through (and to) Local, State and National fire service and emergency leadership. This message sent as per Texas Fire Chiefs, TIFMAS, IAFC, USFA and FEMA. If you are a fire fighter wanting to volunteer you have to be activated by the National Forestry Service first.”

The Texas Forest Service issued a statement Tuesday evening that it is not requesting firefighters/retired firefighters to report to Central Texas.

"If a person wants to fight fire they can:  1. Apply for a full-time Texas Forest Service position. We are not hiring seasonals as we currently do not have the time to hire, train and certify them. 2. Join a local fire department. 3. Members of local departments should not self-dispatch. Have your fire chief contact TIFMAS Coordinator Joe Florentino at jflorentino@littleelm.org"

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If any of u need to evacuate, we can make room in our kennels n pastures for ur animals and u r welcome to bring ur family n stay with us.

Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Police Scanner
Cedar Creek Fire now 912 acres, 90% contained. SH 21 west from 71 to county line is open. #txfire #centraltxfires
about two hour ago

I was told yesterday that some close friends around Neches / Palestine were advised to evac. Any word on how bad it is in that area?

I know other areas are worse... I am sorry to hear about this disaster... Prayers are being sent from south L.A

Hey buddy called and said there was one at whitney. Anyone know?

true..... no specifics but there is a fire at Lake Whitney
here's some video from Texas Storm Chasers..

http://youtu.be/PjCeVQ9cjYY

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