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Texas A&M Forest Service updates wildfire containment efforts in West Texas Wednesday.

Texas has had more than 800 wildfires this year. In a recent tweet, the Texas A&M Forest Service explained how wildfires are named.

1 of 6 CANNONSBURG All up and down Johnson Fork, the trees are snapped and leaning – the ditches are plumb full of hacked limbs and trunks. With a plow on the front of his truck and salt shooting out of the auger in the rear — scattering it on the road — Sean Maroudis expertly drives down the ice-covered road. Dressed in Carhartt bibbed overalls, Maroudis is a stout, strong man with a dark salt-and-pepper beard — while he worked 19 years an ICU nur...