DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Strong winds from Tropical Storm Lee combined with dry humidity to keep parts of South and East Texas on the lookout for wildfires. Showers associated with the storm fell on the deepest part of the East Texas Piney Woods on Saturday, from Liberty and Lufkin east to Louisiana. That left the rest of the eastern half of Texas with what the Texas Forest Service characterized as “critical fire weather.” A forest service statement Saturday said those conditions will dominate most of the state on Sunday. Meantime, crews battled 12 large fired across the state, including the 6,600-acre fire near Possum Kingdom Lake 70 miles west of Fort Worth. That fire which destroyed 39 homes and nine recreational vehicles, was 60 percent contained as of Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Strong winds from Tropical Storm Lee combined with dry humidity to keep parts of South and East Texas on the lookout for wildfires. Showers associated with the storm fell on the deepest part of the East Texas Piney Woods on Saturday, from Liberty and Lufkin east to Louisiana. That left the rest … Continue reading East Texas on Wildfire Alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 07:38:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122518,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122240\/revisions\/122518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}