by Web Editor | Oct 19, 2015 | News, News/PR
Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster Thursday in Bastrop County outside Austin, where a wildfire destroyed 38 structures, most of them homes, and raced across nearly 4,400 acres, authorities said. The Hidden Pines Fire threatens more than 150 homes,...
by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Boy Scouts of America are recruiting volunteers to help reforest a popular campground that was devastated by wildfire over Labor Day weekend in 2011. Nearly half of the 5,000-acre Griffith League Scout Ranch was destroyed by the Bastrop County Complex, a monstrous...
by Web Editor | Sep 16, 2011 | News
A seemingly unstoppable wildfire in Bastrop County east of Austin has destroyed over 500 homes and set a somber state record as the highest number of homes lost in a single fire in Texas history. About 5,000 people were evacuated and the exact number of lost homes is...