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According to Gillespie County officials, the fire – named the Crabapple Fire – started in the 8700 block of Lower Crabapple Road at around 1 p.m. Saturday. By 4:20 p.m. Saturday, the fire had ...
ignited as firefighters were making progress on the larger Crabapple Fire in the area. The Gillespie County Communications Center issued an evacuation order for residents along Duderstadt Road ...
To help with recovery efforts from the Crabapple Fire, Gillespie County has partnered with the OneStar Foundation, Rebuild Texas to establish the Crabapple Disaster Fund. At this time ...
The fire destroyed nearly 30 buildings and ravaged 9,858 acres of land in an area from Lower Crabapple Road to Farm-to-Market Road 1631 in Gillespie County. The fire started last Saturday about 8 ...
The Crabapple Fire destroyed multiple homes in Gillespie County. The Woods family described watching the fast-moving flames move toward the home that has been in their family for generations.
The Crabapple fire, which was contained this weekend after burning nearly 10,000 acres of mostly ranchland in Gillespie County, about 75 miles west of Austin, was sustained by a torrent of high ...
Areas of Texas and New Mexico are at risk of wildfires developing over the weekend, meteorologists are warning.
The Texas A&M Forest Service is offering grants to Central Texans for clearing their land of flammable vegetation to reduce ...
Meanwhile, a wildfire that had started last Saturday about 8 miles northeast of Fredericksburg, has scorched 9,858 acres in northeast Gillespie County. That Hill Country blaze, which was 95% ...
Some include the Windmill Fire in Roberts County and the Crabapple Fire in Gillespie County, which grew to almost 23,300 and 10,000 acres respectively. Still, the state is currently on wildland ...
The Crabapple Fire, for example, got its name based on where it started: just off the 8700 block of Lower Crabapple Road in Gillespie County. The same goes for the Pauline Road Fire. Residents of ...