Carlos Nogueras

Mar 3, 2024 | sourcenm.com | Martha Pskowski |Carlos Nogueras

IMPERIAL — Mounds of dirt towered over Bill Wight, who stared helplessly at the piles that had once been pasture for his cattle. After a few moments, he turned his head and surveyed a vast pool of water that had spilled over his land after an abandoned well exploded in early December. The water that sprang from the forgotten hole drilled searching for oil or water contained so much salt that it scrubbed the life off the land. It decimated the soil.

Mar 3, 2024 | texastribune.org | Carlos Nogueras

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. CANADIAN — Every time she hears a firetruck, Linda Vigil’s heart jumps. Last Tuesday, as a fast-moving grass fire surrounded her hometown from all directions, she closed up her flower shop and rushed to pick up her teenage daughter and son from school. Unsure of where to go, the three fled south. Vigil had been keeping track of the fires through social media.

Mar 1, 2024 | texastribune.org | Carlos Nogueras

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. FRITCH — Blankets. Family photos. Toiletries. An old prom dress. These were some of the personal belongings Deana McBroom organized into piles when she heard fires had begun to encroach on her neighborhood. At a moment’s notice, she could just take them. There was still time, she said. Then, on Tuesday, her phone rang. The fire had breached her neighbor’s backyard.

Feb 29, 2024 | krgv.com | Kate McGee |Carlos Nogueras |Pooja Salhotra |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. ?FRITCH — A blanket of snow and rain that descended over the Texas Panhandle on Thursday helped firefighters to quell the spread of the largest wildfire in the state’s history, which has engulfed more than 1 million acres of land and killed at least two people.

Feb 29, 2024 | krgv.com | Kate McGee |Carlos Nogueras |Pooja Salhotra

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. FRITCH — A blanket of snow and rain that descended over the Texas Panhandle on Thursday helped firefighters to slow the spread of the largest wildfire in the state’s history, which has engulfed more than 1 million acres of land and killed at least two people.