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About 18,000 people live in Eastland County. About 475 homes were evacuated in the town of Gorman, but officials don’t yet know how many structures may have burned, said Matthew Ford, spokesman for Texas A&M Forest Service.
"From the time that [our daughter] sent me the first text saying she saw smoke to when they were evacuated was like 10 to 15 minutes," Ronda Trent said, describing how quickly the situation turned from bad to worse."If we had any inkling that something like that would have happened one of us would've stayed.
Other smaller fires were burning throughout other areas of Texas, and Thursday’s low humidity and high winds created an ideal scenario for the blazes to quickly grow out of control. Texas A&M Forest Service had warned of a wildfire outbreak this week because of the forecast.
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