Local, area firefighters battle wind-fanned flame without hesitation

STORMY FIRE STARTER-Clouds rumbled thunder and unleashed a brief windlashed shower on Hereford May 14, then moved eastward bearing only dry lightning that sparked multiple wildfires, including the 34,000 acre Hungate Fire in Randall County that threatened Canyon and Happy.
STORMY FIRE STARTER-Clouds rumbled thunder and unleashed a brief windlashed shower on Hereford May 14, then moved eastward bearing only dry lightning that sparked multiple wildfires, including the 34,000 acre Hungate Fire in Randall County that threatened Canyon and Happy.

The worst of times brings out the best in the people of the Panhandle.

Firefighters and first responders from Hereford, Bootleg Corner, Dawn, Umbarger, Hart, Nazareth, Canyon, Dimmitt and innumerable other departments, local farmers and ranchers, and maintainer operators from several counties rolled into a raging wind-fanned corner of hell without hesitation in recent days. They battled a maelstrom…