A fire near Tulia, Texas, has been contained, but not before it consumed two homes and a massive swath of acreage.
As KVII reports,the wildfire raged all night Tuesday into Wednesday, burning up 2,200 acres of land. As of ten a.m. Wednesday morning, all but 15% of the fire had been contained.
Firefighters from Tulia and Kress worked overnight to subdue the flames. The fire began in a remote part of the Panhandle, but officials were eventually forced to evacuate parts of Tulia as the conflagration began to threaten populated areas. The fire started on Tuesday afternoon, around 4 p.m.
According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, crews departed from Amarillo this morning to map the fire’s devastation and assess the damage.
With a population of around 5,000, Tulia is the seat of Swisher County.
