Emergency services with Texas A&M Forestry Services combated wildfires in the area by dumping fire retardant from low-flying planes on August 27.
In a video shared by the forestry service, two planes can be seen dumping large quantities of red flame retardant over the so-called Rhodes Ranch 3 Fire in Taylor County, which was estimated to have spread across 200 acres and was 50 percent contained as of Tuesday morning. The planes can be seen flying over emergency vehicles parked in a rural area before large quantities of flame retardant are dumped from the belly of the aircraft.
The View Volunteer Fire Department said multiple agencies were responding to the blaze, and that a wind turbine caught fire.
Texas wildfires have ravaged thousands of acres in the last two weeks, including in Hardeman and Foard counties, in the northwest part of the state, officials said. Credit: Texas A&M Forest Service via Storyful
