Roughly 100 homes were damaged or destroyed in a massive wildfire Sunday and Monday that swept through Hutchinson County, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes, reports lubbockonline.com.
“We’ve got crews still in the area. They are mopping it up at this point. We’ve got a lot of hotspots. You know how yuccas and mesquite are, they don’t want to go out,” Fritch Police Chief Monte Leggett said this morning. “Lake Meredith Harbor is still ll in full evacuation. No one in, no one out. The majority of the destruction was in the Lake Meredith Harbor subdivision.”
Lake Meredith Harbor subdivision remains under evacuation.
Evacuees are being sent to Celebration Church and the Aluminum Dome in Borger. Many areas remain without power this morning, he said.
The fire was about 75 percent contained by 6:30 a.m. Monday, officials said.
“It’s really bad,” said Danny Richards, Hutchinson County emergency management coordinator. “It looks like a war zone. It’s a disaster.”
The homes destroyed by the fire, located about one mile north of Fritch in Lake Meredith Harbor, were a mix of mobile and traditional homes, Richards said. Between 800 and 1,000 acres were burned in the fire, but no structures in Fritch or Sanford were damaged, he said.
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