fires

We LOVE To Be Number One In A Lot Of Categories In Texas But This Is One We Don't Need To Be At The Top Of The List For.

No outdoor burning y'all.

If the skies of Texas seem a little smoky and hazy to you, its because large sections of West Texas are on fire.

Summer still has a strong hold on East Texas and with no rain in the immediate forecast, more counties are enacting burn bans.

This is hard. Every day, the Red Cross says 7 people die in home fires and most of them are in homes that don’t have working smoke alarms. Volunteers in East Texas are working to change that.

This morning in Lindale at 4am the smell of smoke was faint but still noticeable by the time I got in the car to leave for work at 7:15am the smoke smell was stronger. The strong winds this weekend turned things from bad to worse when as local area Fire Fighters tried to keep local residents safe...

Area wildfires have prompted several evacuations from area all across East Texas. Our news partners at KLTV have the most in-depth look at the current fires and any current evacuations going on. Here are area that have evacuations ordered with shelters provided for the residence displaced because of the fires. More after the jump.