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The Guardian - US
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Nina Lakhani

Texas wildfire: strong winds continue to thwart firefighters’ efforts to contain blaze

A wildfire can be seen, slightly through heat waves
A wildfire can be seen, slightly through heat waves, after it was whipped up by high winds in Pampa, Texas, on Saturday. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Ferocious winds continue to thwart firefighters across a broad swath of Texas on Sunday where the second largest wildfire in US history is only 15% contained after six days.

As of Sunday morning the Smokehouse Creek fire has so far scorched almost 1.1m acres – 1,700 sq miles – across the Texas Panhandle in the north of the state, as well as tens of thousands of acres in Oklahoma.

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