As fires devastate Australia, Hemphill Co. landowners focus on wildfire preparedness
Just 24 hours after Amarillo’s National Weather Service warned of elevated fire weather conditions in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, nearly 100 landowners met at the Hemphill County Exhibition Center last Thursday to learn how to prepare for potential wildfire.
The NE Texas Panhandle Wildfire Preparedness Meeting was held against a backdrop of increasingly dire reports from Australia, of…