AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 Since Friday, the Texas A&M Forest Service has responded to 25 wildland fires burning across Texas. As a result of the current weather conditions and climate, the Texas A&M Forest Service has elevated the fire danger risk to Level 3 in terms of preparedness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been seeing a large uptick in wildfire activity throughout the state and were seeing a little bit of drought come into some areas, which is also affecting the fuels, making them more volatile,\u201d says Juan Rodriguez, wildland urban interface coordinator for Texas A&M Forest Service.<\/p>\n
What does the Level 3 mean for the public?<\/p>\n
\u201cReally, it\u2019s just a planning and preparedness of assumption that would be put in place,\u201d said Rodriguez. \u201cThis way, we know what our staffing needs are and what we\u2019re going off of is the wildfire activity, current and expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the seasons whenever we’re transitioning from summer to winter, this is when we see a lot of fires in our wintertime,\u201d said Jonathan Stevens, assistant fire chief for Potter County Fire & Rescue. \u201cThe transition of the grasses, they start to die and even though it\u2019s cool outside and the moisture feels like it\u2019s in the air, the fuel moisture is still available in the fuel, and it will burn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Texas A&M Forest Service has mobilized additional resources and equipment to certain parts of the Texas Panhandle that are prone to wildland fires. <\/p>\n
The agency is reminding anyone who is planning to operate equipment that can spark, such as welding and or weed whackers, to make sure they have an ample supply of water in proximity.<\/p>\n
Be sure to check the winds before you ignite anything outdoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 Since Friday, the Texas A&M Forest Service has responded to 25 wildland fires burning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[470,1956,1957,495,27,1887,29,28,1959,1955,1958],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-drought","9":"tag-fire-danger","10":"tag-preparedness","11":"tag-resources","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-am-forest-service","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news","16":"tag-texas-panhandle","17":"tag-wildfire","18":"tag-wildfire-activity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}