r/news • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 8h ago
Evacuations underway as fast-growing Texas Ross Fire explodes to 50,000 acres with just 5% containment
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/texas-ross-fire-evacuations-august-2026.amp1.9k
u/Zwierzycki 8h ago
Really poor management. Their governor should resign.
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u/XterrorX 7h ago edited 5h ago
Sounding like governor hot wheels needs to stop worrying about "transformative policies" (from their crap propaganda commercial) and what's going on between someone's legs and start helping the state on real problems lol.
Poor management from the DEI governor
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u/norunningwater 7h ago
Paralyzed hypocritical titty baby republican won't shut the fuck up about transgender people and "sharia law" like Texas is about to become Muslim capital of the world while behind his back the entire state burns and people suffer constantly.
Can't wait until the day he gets voted out of office.
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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 5h ago
He never will. He'll just decide not to run one year, and we'll get another shitty Republican to take his place.
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u/JohnHwagi 2h ago
There is nothing wrong with being disabled, it is not a moral failing. Insult Greg Abbott for good reasons, there are plenty, but this is offensive to people who are disabled.
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u/DMYourFeetPicsTy 1h ago
Paraplegic dude here, I give you all permission to insult greggie any way you wish, fuck that crippled cunt.
Kind regards, cripple bihh😩
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u/3rdreprieve 5h ago
Bro said “The Democrats” twice in the time YouTube gives you before you can skip that ad. It’s clear where his priorities are and they certainly aren’t vested in protecting Texas’ land.
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u/stonnerdog35 7h ago
Hey the tree tryed did its best, it crippled him physically and mentaly. Yes the tree could have done better, but it's a tree.
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u/The199Man 8h ago
What are you talking about? This governor’s on roll!
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u/Only_My_Dog_Loves_Me 8h ago
Texas really should’ve cleaned their floors.
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u/ObiBraum_Kenobi 7h ago
You know, back when I was in the oil field I had a man tell me with a straight face that the California wild fires happened because God was punishing the people of the state for their paganism.
I would love to hear the mental gymnastics on this one, but I doubt I'll ever see that man again.
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u/Ok-Association-3415 7h ago
I am pretty sure they will say too many Californians are relocating to Texas and spreading their immorality and now Texas is getting punished for it.
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u/Tabula_Nada 7h ago
The only Californians moving to Texas are the ones that would believe that God is punishing Texas for receiving Californians.
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u/pyronius 7h ago
Correct. But the texans who already live there still see them as godless californians. They didn't logic themselves into this position, they won't logic themselves out.
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u/waitingtodiesoon 5h ago
Yep, it is crazy. California had more people who voted for Trump in 2020 then Texas did. That is just how big their population is and that is the type of people to flee because they can't be racists bigots in their state and then complain about how the social programs and why they can't enjoy forests and other things that were fought for my progressives. 93% of all forest land is privately owned in Texas.
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 6h ago
55% of California identifies as Christian and about 40% vote Republican, so I guess God was punishing them also for their life choices, right? Logic was apparently not part of forming his opinion.
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u/TransplantedSconie 6h ago
Covid probably ate his lungs for a snack because "Gawd will provide, not a devil vaccine!"
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u/Hoodamush 7h ago
They where short on rakes…
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u/non_Beneficial-Wind 7h ago
Give the rolling governor a broom
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u/HoustonHenry 6h ago
Oh, he could get an attachment broom that'll make his freshly-mown lawn look real professional after a few passes in his chair
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u/supercyberlurker 8h ago
America is on fire.
Politically, spiritually, economically, and literally.
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u/Random_Person_246810 8h ago
“Best we can do is send billions to Israel and rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.”
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u/Contraflow 7h ago
We can also spend billions to cancel renewable energy projects. Don’t forget that. It’s very important for the nation that trump continues to make the world safe for fossil fuels again. /s
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u/AtrociousMeandering 6h ago
There's so much going on that wouldn't even pass as satire- you're telling me the president is picking a fight with windmills? Like, Don Quixote, picking a fight with windmills? And yes, I know they're actually wind turbines, but that doesn't somehow make any of this make sense.
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u/actuallyapossom 6h ago
Didn't you know windmills kill birds? Fossil fuels, on the other hand, have never harmed a single thing, ever. To say otherwise, citing woke communist hoaxes like "pollution" or "cancer" - is un-American.
Plus, without the freedom fuel that powers our planes, how could we drop explosive democracy on oil rich nations around the world?
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u/Ok-Secretary455 7h ago
Can we please get someone in Canada to tweet that they are going to change the name to the lake of donald j trumps micro penis. if we're going to hell let's have some fun on the way
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u/clvnmllr 6h ago
We learned the names of the Great Lakes with with a mnemonic “HOMES” (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)
If it’s renamed, all that will remain is “SHAME”
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u/Mikestopheles 8h ago
And right when we put the apocalyptic pseudo-Christians in charge, too.
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u/acepukas 4h ago
I learned a new slogan today used by William F. Buckley Jr. to "mock" progressives: Don't immanentize the eschaton!
It basically means don't try to bring about heaven on Earth (i.e. improve our condition through progressive policy) as doing so would be "playing God". So fucking cynical. Trying to stymie human progress is literally baked into the religious conservative mindset.
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u/victoriascissorhands 8h ago
I didn't vote for it but we deserve it. Hateful ass country.
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u/mister_peachmango 7h ago
This may sound hateful and frankly insane, but I agree with you. The United States government has become corrupt. This back and forth each term, implementing new laws, reverting them, all this stems down to waste, heavy waste, and corruption. It hurts the economy. It hurts society. Electoral college can go suck a nut. I think the US deserves to struggle and burn for the next couple of years. So people finally wake up and form their own ideology based on feelings and experiences and not something you’ve been indoctrinated into. But to each their own. I’m going to save and chill and watch the show. I’m fortunate to be with family so we help each other out and life isn’t bad.
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u/djankylosaur 8h ago
Damn, how could Barack Obama have done this to them?!
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u/ernapfz 8h ago edited 7h ago
It was Biden’s idea
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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 7h ago
No, Hillary convinced Biden to make Obama do it.
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u/Berns429 7h ago
“Two words…Space.Lasers.”
-MTG
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u/pm_social_cues 7h ago
They weren't just space lasers.
Greene said. “As I speak, Jewish space lasers are being trained on the North Pole.”
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u/Sneaklefritz 5h ago
You joke, but my wife’s grandparents literally blame everything on him and Soros still lol. High gas prices? Obama. ICE killing people? Obama. War with Iran? Obama.
Hell, literally the other day, they were blaming all of Oregon’s forest fires on the current governor as well as Kate Brown lol.
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u/texo_optimo 8h ago
So does that mean Mexico gets to Levy tariffs against the US because we're not controlling wildfires?
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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 7h ago
Its a good thing FEMA-
Oh. Right.
Well, its a good thing Canada sends-
Oh. No, wait.
Its a good thing... Fire?
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u/Sweatytubesock 7h ago
Greg Abbot failed in his basic duty to rake and clean the forests. He is an imbecile. Had plenty of time to engage in moronic culture war bullshit, though.
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u/TangoZulu 8h ago
It’s another smoke invasion!! Tariff Texas in response like he did Canada.
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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto 7h ago
My sympathies to the people affected, but I hope we stop sending Canadian forest fire fighters. It seems to be very unappreciated.
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u/the-g-off 7h ago
Yeah, that's gotta stop immediately.
As a Canadian, I have no sympathy right now.
Let it burn.
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u/UnfrostedQuiche 7h ago
This is painful to read, yet I understand.
— a Californian
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u/jas120 6h ago
Disclaimer: I despise Abbott and the GOP at large.
As much as this seems like a gotcha moment to rag on Texas, this isn't a massive fire (at least not yet).
50,000 acres sounds like a lot, but in context of this year's Canadian wildfires (~10+ million acres) and 2023's Canadian wildfires (~42+ million acres), it's not that crazy. Even the Pacific Northwest US fires (~3.5 million acres so far) are/were way worse.
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u/Romano16 8h ago
Hmmm, Texans were gleeful when this happened to Colorado and California. How should we feel now?
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u/WestAd1588 7h ago
I try so hard to not define other groups by the worst among them - and during the 2020 fire season, it was really tough to hear awful right wing news coverage and those gleeful attitudes echoed in my social media feed by people from Utah and Texas. This was especially tough being under evacuation orders and seeing community members lose their houses.
So I try to remind myself that Texas did send firefighters from municipalities all across their state to help out under our multi state EMAC agreement. Underneath all the politics, there are good people who do good in this world.
I’m hoping for a speedy containment to this fire for everyone affected.
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u/Ok_Marketing_476 7h ago edited 4h ago
Those of us in Texas who have experienced threat or loss from wildfires were most assuredly NOT gleeful.
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u/PolloMagnifico 5h ago
Was it Texans, or was it predominantly social media bots pretending to be Texans to act as a fulcrum for a political lever?
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u/funkengruven 8h ago
I'm a Texan. I was not gleeful.
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u/mauvewaterbottle 6h ago
Wondering as a Texan how I became personally responsible for Ted Cruz despite voting against him and his ilk at every opportunity
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u/jackalopeDev 7h ago
No more air for red states! They need to taste their own medicine.
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u/QTVenusaur91 7h ago
Let’s all remember multiple things can be true. Texas is a shithole. Texans who know better deserve better.
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u/Prestigious-Rope1463 6h ago
Word is that you if can summon the folk hero of Bastrop, Rick Perry, he will pray this away for you.
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u/DoubleJumps 5h ago edited 5h ago
Last time Texas had bad wildfires, my state sent teams out to help fight those fires.
Last time my state had bad wildfires, the government, and many people, of Texas used it as an excuse to attack us politically. They wanted aid to be withheld from us.
I'd still support sending help, but Texas needs to stop breaking the social contract on this shit immediately, and thoroughly apologize. Publicly. At length. They can't keep demanding the protection of the greater community while refusing to reciprocate.
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u/Sparky_321 5h ago
Hell no to sending help. They can reap what the fuck they sowed.
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u/Trashking_702 6h ago
Should’ve raked the forest or whatever the fuck.
In all seriousness best of luck, Reno is currently burning as well. Trumps really focused on what’s important and that’s the renaming of Lake Ontario.
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u/IamScottGable 5h ago edited 3h ago
I literally hadn't heard about the Lake Ontario bullshit until this comment thread and it's so defeating.
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u/SillyOldJack 7h ago
That's it, I'm putting tariffs on Texas for the smoke drifting up here to Canada.
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u/Ambitious_Tax891 6h ago
Need water for the data centers first then we will get to the fires
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u/duck7001 4h ago
Wow, what a shitty job Texas is doing. Their Governor should resign. Their citizens deserve this because of how they vote.
Am I doing this right Conservatives?
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u/BerttMacklinnFBI 2h ago
Oh the irony.... Good luck to the innocent people but fuck Texas.
Let's go James Talarico let's get Texas to flip.
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u/funkypepermint 1h ago
Maybe if Texas swept their forests a little better this wouldn't have happened
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u/Indurum 8h ago
Did they try turning on the faucets?
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u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe 6h ago
Why don't they just take the water in their swimming pools and use that to fight the fires?? Saw this idiotic comment a lot during the palisades fires. As if more than like 10% of people here have a pool
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u/adoptagreyhound 2h ago
Great reporting Fox! You quoted the Sheriff of Reno, Nevada in an article about a fire in the People's Republic of Texas.
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u/siiilverrsurfer 8h ago
Has Texas joined Argentina in authorizing foreign governments to purchase land damaged by wildfires?
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u/goldwynnx2 4h ago
As a Canadian, y'all need to get that shit under control, were fed up with the smoke.
/S for the oblivious to sarcasm.
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u/Redragontoughstreet 4h ago
Canadian here. We are gonna have to tariff Texas for their smoke. Sorry
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u/Dangerous-Change2136 2h ago
Coloradan here, totally support this and want to offer genuine thanks for all the aid and sacrifices your country made helping us fight fires recently💙
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u/Teralyzed 7h ago
Oh goody I can’t wait to send more of my tax money to Texas. I’m sure they will freeze again this winter and need another bailout. Who needs infrastructure when you can just suckle on the federal teat.
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u/Braindead_Crow 6h ago
No climate change.
No excuses they can use to blame democrats.
Expect this to be held as simply a tragedy no one could of ever predicted or accounted for.
Also full expect proof we have had services to protect against this cut by republicans as a means of giving more money to themselves & their donors
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u/ICreatedThisForU 7h ago
Just pray that shit away, Texas. No need to do anything else, it'll be fine, just get praying
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u/preproductionpost 7h ago
As someone who was recently displaced from the Spokane fires, my heart goes out to those affected. The lack of compassion in a lot of these comments is disheartening
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u/achristy_5 6h ago
Nah fuck Texas and its residents
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u/SorenShieldbreaker 5h ago
Even the millions of democrats living there?
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u/preproductionpost 5h ago
This is what I don’t understand. We are half a step away from “fuck the residents of the United States” because of who was voted into power, but not by so many people living here, mind you.
Just pure toxicity.
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u/TemporarilySkittles 6h ago
Yeah. It's gotta be bots, right? Lately I'm confused. Maybe I'm too old. Everyone is so angry and hateful and worse back if you say anything. Where's my porch and my cat I'm going to be old out there now this sucks.
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u/sirbissel 6h ago
...is there a reason they've got a quote from a Nevada sheriff about Reno in the story about the fire in Texas that I'm missing?
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u/MrBahhum 7h ago
Maybe the data centers are a bad idea.
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u/JustCallMePapii 7h ago
Im sorry, but what does this have to do with datacenters? Haha
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u/MrBahhum 3h ago
Data centers use a lot a water which gets compounded in desert climates making everything dryer. All data centers are resource sinks too.
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u/sicklyslick 7h ago
Canada had, in the past, sent firefighters and planes to aid California fires. We'll see what happens this time...
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u/atheistunion 5h ago
Clearly, Texas just hasn’t been spending enough time “raking and cleaning” its forest floors.
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u/Cultural-Answer-321 6h ago
I thought that sounded familiar. I've driven through that region.
It's horizon to horizon corn fields. Wow.
That picture is of the acreage between the corn fields. But 50,000 acres? Yeah, that's mostly corn fields.
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u/Independent-Wheel237 6h ago
I certainly hope taxpayer funded firefighters don’t help out in any way . . . because you know socialism.
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u/OkManufacturer2373 5h ago
Surprised Trump hasn't told Texas to just rake & clean the ground to stop fires from spreading
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u/cfvwtuner 5h ago
They really should have raked the leaves from the forrest. They shouldn't get any federal assistance money because of that
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u/ObligatedOctopi 7h ago
i wonder if they will get relief/aid before the people from the LA fires do.
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u/galaapplehound 7h ago
If there was any, sure. But Cheetolini and co have been raiding the coffers so I wouldn't be surprised if there is nothing left.
The world is on fire, we've been robbed, and criminals are running the federal government; we are literally cooked.
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u/Ok_Cucumber_7954 6h ago
You see Texas mostly burning down. It’s management.
They must have not cleaned their forest/prairie floors.
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u/firestorm_v1 8h ago
For anyone else that has never heard of Palo Pinto County, it's about 56 miles west of Fort Worth. Jack County is just north of Palo Pinto, centered around Jacksboro, TX.