As you may know, Texas has had the hottest summer ever and the worst drought (maybe ever). People have had to sell their cattle because there is nothing to feed them. Trees are dying and the grass crunches when you walk on it. And just in the past few weeks we have had an outbreak of wildfires. Some are a result of arson, some are the result of idiocy. 97% of the state has been under a burn ban for months, yet people are still trying to barbecue on charcoal grills. This video is a fire that started yesterday to the south of me, and we could see the smoke at our house. Of course this morning we had to breathe the smoke as it was low-lying throughout the town. This fire started because some redneck went to set up his deer camp and parked his vehicle in tall grass and left it running while he ran about on the 4-wheeler. Of course the heat from the vehicle caught the grass on fire and burned his vehicle up and many, many acres. I am so thankful for all the volunteer firefighters that have been working day and night to try to contain these fires.
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