Name: Texas fires 2024: how did the Smokehouse creek wildfire spread so quickly? | REUTERS
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The Smokehouse Creek fire started on Monday, just right by the little town of Stinnett.

And basically what happened is what we refer to as a Southern Plains wildfire outbreak, which is kind of a Goldilocks situation, where you have extremely high winds, dry fuels and low relative humidity.

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And those conditions really make for situation where these fires can go grow really rapidly.

Yesterday and in last night, this fire was absolutely running just extreme fire behavior really fast.

Now today, relative humidity is up, temperatures down, and winds have calmed down.

And that's why you see the way it looks now, which is just smoldering interior heat.

We've also put in a ton of fire line, so the crews worked all day yesterday and all night last night, and

we're out early this morning putting in line.

So a lot of the fire has fire line around it, though not all, but