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Erum Salam and agencies

Xcel Energy admits it was ‘involved in ignition’ of Texas’s Smokehouse Creek fire

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a burned car sits next to two white trucks with giant cranes on a snowy day
Utility workers from Xcel Energy work on power lines near a home destroyed by the Smokehouse Creek fireon 29 February 2024, in Stinnett, Texas. Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

The electric utility company Xcel Energy admitted on Thursday that it appeared to have played a role in Texas’s Smokehouse Creek fire, the largest wildfire in modern US history.

“Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire,” it said in a statement on Thursday.

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