More Fires Consume East Texas

SMITH COUNTY – A fire in Eastern Smith County has destroyed a mobile home. The fire was reported yesterday on Goforth Road near the Smith/Gregg County line. Firemen were able to keep the fire from spreading to a nearby wooded area. No word on what caused the fire. No injuries were reported.

TROUP — According to Smith County Fire Officials, a grass fire has been extinguished near the Dollar Store on the 1400 block of West Duval Street in Troup. Firefighters requested the Texas Forest Service helicopters to assist them.

KILGORE – A small fire near the Danville Farm was quickly extinguished yesterday. The Christmas tree farm was not damaged and the fire was contained to a small wooded area east of the farm. It is unknown what caused the one acre fire.

NACOGDOCHES — Nacogdoches County fire departments have been moving throughout the county the last couple of days battling fires caused by intensely dry conditions and low humidity. “All you have to do is go outside and walk in your grass to know why we’re having more fires,” Texas Forest Service Urban Wildland Interface Specialist Jan Amen said. “This is a drought worse than the last 100 years, and we have no end to it in sight.”

Nacogdoches County fire departments and the Texas Forest Service on Tuesday battled a several-acre fire that threatened at least three homes on CR 113 in the North Redland community. A forest service helicopter was dispatched to the fire in an effort to combat the areas which weren’t accessible to fire trucks, said Rodney Witaker, Lilbert/Looneyville Volunteer Fire Department safety officer.