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Wet weather pattern brings end to wildfire season

August 21, 2008--COLLEGE STATION, Texas--Current rains across Texas bring relief to more than 200 days of the Lone Star State’s summer wildfire season. Due to recent and ongoing significant rainfall, wildfire danger statewide has declined. Supplemental firefighting resources maintained in Texas over the past 210 days are no longer needed and have begun demobilizing. Texas Forest Service will return to normal staffing levels over the next several days.The signal of the decline of the summer wildfire season adheres to a historically-normal weather pattern change. Trad...
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