Texans Come Together to Deliver Supplies, Hope to Ranchers Devastated by Wildfires

The Smokehouse Creek wildfire in the Texas Panhandle burned for weeks, turning ranches into ash, killing thousands of head of cattle, and leaving ranchers and farmers on a long road to recovery. On Feb. 26, Garret Duvall of Wichita Falls told The Epoch Times he got a call from his grandparents, whose ranch is near Pampa, telling him the wildfire was creeping its way toward their ranch. “The fire’s getting closer,” Mr. Duvall said his grandparents told him. “So, I packed up and headed up there to help keep the fire off our homestead, which we did not succeed at.” Thousands of cattle and two people lost their lives in a series of wildfires that scorched more than 1.5 million acres before being finally contained in late March. The blaze also destroyed hundreds of homes and other structures, along with thousands of miles of fencing....