All wildfire evacuation orders
for Possum Kingdom Lake residents are now lifted. KERA's BJ Austin says
residents are returning after more than a week.
Officials
say the Possum Kingdom fire destroyed 167 homes and 24 additional
structures. And the threat is not over, even though weekend rains
dropped one to four inches in the area. David Boyd is with the Incident
Command Post in Mineral Wells.
Boyd: This rain really helped us
with this fire, but Texas, in West Texas, is still so dry that there's
still going to be a high fire danger in those areas.
Boyd says
the threat of a lightning strike during spring thunderstorms igniting a
new fire in the Possum Kingdom area is a real possibility. He says
homeowners who return must be alert and ready to respond. He also says
charred trees could topple in the high winds, and that's a hazard. The
Possum Kingdom fire is now about 70% contained.
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