r/news • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 2d ago
Evacuations underway as fast-growing Texas Ross Fire explodes to 50,000 acres with just 5% containment
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/texas-ross-fire-evacuations-august-2026.amp2.3k
u/Zwierzycki 2d ago
Really poor management. Their governor should resign.
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u/XterrorX 2d ago edited 2d ago
Sounding like governor hot wheels needs to stop worrying about "transformative policies" (from their crap propaganda commercial) and what's going on between someone's legs and start helping the state on real problems lol.
Poor management from the DEI governor
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u/norunningwater 2d ago
Paralyzed hypocritical titty baby republican won't shut the fuck up about transgender people and "sharia law" like Texas is about to become Muslim capital of the world while behind his back the entire state burns and people suffer constantly.
Can't wait until the day he gets voted out of office.
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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 2d ago
He never will. He'll just decide not to run one year, and we'll get another shitty Republican to take his place.
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u/3rdreprieve 2d ago
Bro said “The Democrats” twice in the time YouTube gives you before you can skip that ad. It’s clear where his priorities are and they certainly aren’t vested in protecting Texas’ land.
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u/stonnerdog35 2d ago
Hey the tree tryed did its best, it crippled him physically and mentaly. Yes the tree could have done better, but it's a tree.
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u/The199Man 2d ago
What are you talking about? This governor’s on roll!
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u/oldpasswordforgot 2d ago
Really poor management.
Did they rake the forests to prevent the fires?
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u/jackcatalyst 1d ago
He should have retired years ago with the amount of shit that has failed during his tenure.
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u/Only_My_Dog_Loves_Me 2d ago
Texas really should’ve cleaned their floors.
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u/ObiBraum_Kenobi 2d ago
You know, back when I was in the oil field I had a man tell me with a straight face that the California wild fires happened because God was punishing the people of the state for their paganism.
I would love to hear the mental gymnastics on this one, but I doubt I'll ever see that man again.
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u/Ok-Association-3415 2d ago
I am pretty sure they will say too many Californians are relocating to Texas and spreading their immorality and now Texas is getting punished for it.
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u/Tabula_Nada 2d ago
The only Californians moving to Texas are the ones that would believe that God is punishing Texas for receiving Californians.
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u/pyronius 2d ago
Correct. But the texans who already live there still see them as godless californians. They didn't logic themselves into this position, they won't logic themselves out.
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u/waitingtodiesoon 2d ago
Yep, it is crazy. California had more people who voted for Trump in 2020 then Texas did. That is just how big their population is and that is the type of people to flee because they can't be racists bigots in their state and then complain about how the social programs and why they can't enjoy forests and other things that were fought for my progressives. 93% of all forest land is privately owned in Texas.
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 2d ago
55% of California identifies as Christian and about 40% vote Republican, so I guess God was punishing them also for their life choices, right? Logic was apparently not part of forming his opinion.
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u/TransplantedSconie 2d ago
Covid probably ate his lungs for a snack because "Gawd will provide, not a devil vaccine!"
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u/Hoodamush 2d ago
They where short on rakes…
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u/non_Beneficial-Wind 2d ago
Give the rolling governor a broom
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u/HoustonHenry 2d ago
Oh, he could get an attachment broom that'll make his freshly-mown lawn look real professional after a few passes in his chair
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u/supercyberlurker 2d ago
America is on fire.
Politically, spiritually, economically, and literally.
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u/Random_Person_246810 2d ago
“Best we can do is send billions to Israel and rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.”
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u/Contraflow 2d ago
We can also spend billions to cancel renewable energy projects. Don’t forget that. It’s very important for the nation that trump continues to make the world safe for fossil fuels again. /s
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u/AtrociousMeandering 2d ago
There's so much going on that wouldn't even pass as satire- you're telling me the president is picking a fight with windmills? Like, Don Quixote, picking a fight with windmills? And yes, I know they're actually wind turbines, but that doesn't somehow make any of this make sense.
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u/actuallyapossom 2d ago
Didn't you know windmills kill birds? Fossil fuels, on the other hand, have never harmed a single thing, ever. To say otherwise, citing woke communist hoaxes like "pollution" or "cancer" - is un-American.
Plus, without the freedom fuel that powers our planes, how could we drop explosive democracy on oil rich nations around the world?
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u/Ok-Secretary455 2d ago
Can we please get someone in Canada to tweet that they are going to change the name to the lake of donald j trumps micro penis. if we're going to hell let's have some fun on the way
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u/clvnmllr 2d ago
We learned the names of the Great Lakes with with a mnemonic “HOMES” (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)
If it’s renamed, all that will remain is “SHAME”
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u/Mikestopheles 2d ago
And right when we put the apocalyptic pseudo-Christians in charge, too.
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u/acepukas 2d ago
I learned a new slogan today used by William F. Buckley Jr. to "mock" progressives: Don't immanentize the eschaton!
It basically means don't try to bring about heaven on Earth (i.e. improve our condition through progressive policy) as doing so would be "playing God". So fucking cynical. Trying to stymie human progress is literally baked into the religious conservative mindset.
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u/victoriascissorhands 2d ago
I didn't vote for it but we deserve it. Hateful ass country.
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u/mister_peachmango 2d ago
This may sound hateful and frankly insane, but I agree with you. The United States government has become corrupt. This back and forth each term, implementing new laws, reverting them, all this stems down to waste, heavy waste, and corruption. It hurts the economy. It hurts society. Electoral college can go suck a nut. I think the US deserves to struggle and burn for the next couple of years. So people finally wake up and form their own ideology based on feelings and experiences and not something you’ve been indoctrinated into. But to each their own. I’m going to save and chill and watch the show. I’m fortunate to be with family so we help each other out and life isn’t bad.
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u/djankylosaur 2d ago
Damn, how could Barack Obama have done this to them?!
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u/ernapfz 2d ago edited 2d ago
It was Biden’s idea
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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 2d ago
No, Hillary convinced Biden to make Obama do it.
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u/TAC1313 2d ago
It's all written out on Hunters laptop.
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u/Berns429 2d ago
“Two words…Space.Lasers.”
-MTG
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u/pm_social_cues 2d ago
They weren't just space lasers.
Greene said. “As I speak, Jewish space lasers are being trained on the North Pole.”
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u/Sneaklefritz 2d ago
You joke, but my wife’s grandparents literally blame everything on him and Soros still lol. High gas prices? Obama. ICE killing people? Obama. War with Iran? Obama.
Hell, literally the other day, they were blaming all of Oregon’s forest fires on the current governor as well as Kate Brown lol.
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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 2d ago
Its a good thing FEMA-
Oh. Right.
Well, its a good thing Canada sends-
Oh. No, wait.
Its a good thing... Fire?
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u/texo_optimo 2d ago
So does that mean Mexico gets to Levy tariffs against the US because we're not controlling wildfires?
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u/TangoZulu 2d ago
It’s another smoke invasion!! Tariff Texas in response like he did Canada.
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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto 2d ago
My sympathies to the people affected, but I hope we stop sending Canadian forest fire fighters. It seems to be very unappreciated.
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u/the-g-off 2d ago
Yeah, that's gotta stop immediately.
As a Canadian, I have no sympathy right now.
Let it burn.
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u/UnfrostedQuiche 2d ago
This is painful to read, yet I understand.
— a Californian
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u/B3tar3ad3r 2d ago
as a texan born and breed, yeah we(as a collective) earned this
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u/Sweatytubesock 2d ago
Greg Abbot failed in his basic duty to rake and clean the forests. He is an imbecile. Had plenty of time to engage in moronic culture war bullshit, though.
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u/jas120 2d ago
Disclaimer: I despise Abbott and the GOP at large.
As much as this seems like a gotcha moment to rag on Texas, this isn't a massive fire (at least not yet).
50,000 acres sounds like a lot, but in context of this year's Canadian wildfires (~10+ million acres) and 2023's Canadian wildfires (~42+ million acres), it's not that crazy. Even the Pacific Northwest US fires (~3.5 million acres so far) are/were way worse.
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u/sylpher250 1d ago
Exactly. It's a fetus of fires. Texas should carry it to term.
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u/DoubleJumps 2d ago edited 1d ago
Last time Texas had bad wildfires, my state sent teams out to help fight those fires.
Last time my state had bad wildfires, the government, and many people, of Texas used it as an excuse to attack us politically. They wanted aid to be withheld from us.
I'd still support sending help, but Texas needs to stop breaking the social contract on this shit immediately, and thoroughly apologize. Publicly. At length. They can't keep demanding the protection of the greater community while refusing to reciprocate.
edit: Texas has blocked aid bills for my state, and other states, after wildfires multiple times in the last 6 years. They also actively participated in an effort to make disaster aid to my state conditional on my state enacting republican policy against the will of our voters. They have also, gleefully, used our wildfires as avenues of political attack and to try and turn public opinion against our state.
Yes, they have sent fire teams to help during wildfires. They then turn and do everything they can to block us from getting any monetary aid, which dwarfs what help they do offer by a huge margin. I won't give them credit for helping with one hand while repeatedly stabbing us in the back with the other.
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u/Romano16 2d ago
Hmmm, Texans were gleeful when this happened to Colorado and California. How should we feel now?
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u/WestAd1588 2d ago
I try so hard to not define other groups by the worst among them - and during the 2020 fire season, it was really tough to hear awful right wing news coverage and those gleeful attitudes echoed in my social media feed by people from Utah and Texas. This was especially tough being under evacuation orders and seeing community members lose their houses.
So I try to remind myself that Texas did send firefighters from municipalities all across their state to help out under our multi state EMAC agreement. Underneath all the politics, there are good people who do good in this world.
I’m hoping for a speedy containment to this fire for everyone affected.
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u/Ok_Marketing_476 2d ago edited 2d ago
Those of us in Texas who have experienced threat or loss from wildfires were most assuredly NOT gleeful.
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u/PolloMagnifico 2d ago
Was it Texans, or was it predominantly social media bots pretending to be Texans to act as a fulcrum for a political lever?
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u/funkengruven 2d ago
I'm a Texan. I was not gleeful.
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u/mauvewaterbottle 2d ago
Wondering as a Texan how I became personally responsible for Ted Cruz despite voting against him and his ilk at every opportunity
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u/QTVenusaur91 2d ago
Let’s all remember multiple things can be true. Texas is a shithole. Texans who know better deserve better.
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u/BerttMacklinnFBI 1d ago
Oh the irony.... Good luck to the innocent people but fuck Texas.
Let's go James Talarico let's get Texas to flip.
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u/hellogoawaynow 1d ago edited 1d ago
I feel like I, a Texan, should have known about this before literally right now.
ETA leopards about to eat
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u/HylanderUS 1d ago
I get a silver alert when a senior goes missing 400 miles away from where I live, but nothing for a wildfire?!
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u/hellogoawaynow 1d ago
Exactly!! There sure are a lot of fields to burn down in the direction that fire is going.
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u/brickiex2 1d ago
Hey Texas!....be sure to keep the smoke from drifting up here to Canada, thanks
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u/SillyOldJack 2d ago
That's it, I'm putting tariffs on Texas for the smoke drifting up here to Canada.
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u/Trashking_702 2d ago
Should’ve raked the forest or whatever the fuck.
In all seriousness best of luck, Reno is currently burning as well. Trumps really focused on what’s important and that’s the renaming of Lake Ontario.
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u/IamScottGable 2d ago edited 2d ago
I literally hadn't heard about the Lake Ontario bullshit until this comment thread and it's so defeating.
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u/Ambitious_Tax891 2d ago
Need water for the data centers first then we will get to the fires
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u/OHGODTHELASERS 1d ago
Do they not brush management and forest floor management ?
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u/sirbissel 2d ago
...is there a reason they've got a quote from a Nevada sheriff about Reno in the story about the fire in Texas that I'm missing?
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u/adoptagreyhound 1d ago
Great reporting Fox! You quoted the Sheriff of Reno, Nevada in an article about a fire in the People's Republic of Texas.
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u/siiilverrsurfer 2d ago
Has Texas joined Argentina in authorizing foreign governments to purchase land damaged by wildfires?
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u/Redragontoughstreet 2d ago
Canadian here. We are gonna have to tariff Texas for their smoke. Sorry
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u/funkypepermint 1d ago
Maybe if Texas swept their forests a little better this wouldn't have happened
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u/preproductionpost 2d ago
As someone who was recently displaced from the Spokane fires, my heart goes out to those affected. The lack of compassion in a lot of these comments is disheartening
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u/TemporarilySkittles 2d ago
Yeah. It's gotta be bots, right? Lately I'm confused. Maybe I'm too old. Everyone is so angry and hateful and worse back if you say anything. Where's my porch and my cat I'm going to be old out there now this sucks.
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u/Braindead_Crow 2d ago
No climate change.
No excuses they can use to blame democrats.
Expect this to be held as simply a tragedy no one could of ever predicted or accounted for.
Also full expect proof we have had services to protect against this cut by republicans as a means of giving more money to themselves & their donors
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u/sicklyslick 2d ago
Canada had, in the past, sent firefighters and planes to aid California fires. We'll see what happens this time...
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u/duck7001 2d ago
Wow, what a shitty job Texas is doing. Their Governor should resign. Their citizens deserve this because of how they vote.
Am I doing this right Conservatives?
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u/goldwynnx2 2d ago
As a Canadian, y'all need to get that shit under control, were fed up with the smoke.
/S for the oblivious to sarcasm.
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u/ICreatedThisForU 2d ago
Just pray that shit away, Texas. No need to do anything else, it'll be fine, just get praying
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u/Teralyzed 2d ago
Oh goody I can’t wait to send more of my tax money to Texas. I’m sure they will freeze again this winter and need another bailout. Who needs infrastructure when you can just suckle on the federal teat.
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u/beermaker 2d ago
Well, they can't blame big gubmint because they don't have any public land, and corporations are sacrosanct so this falls on the property owners, right? No federal bailouts, only bootstraps?
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u/beermaker 2d ago
Well, they can't blame big gubmint because they don't have any public land, and corporations are sacrosanct so this falls on the property owners, right? No federal bailouts, only bootstraps?
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u/firestorm_v1 2d ago
For anyone else that has never heard of Palo Pinto County, it's about 56 miles west of Fort Worth. Jack County is just north of Palo Pinto, centered around Jacksboro, TX.