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The Southern Area Gold Type 2 Incident Management Team has arrived in Texas and will assume command of the Mesquite Heat Fire. An incident management team is mobilized during complex emergency incidents to provide a command and control infrastructure to manage that incident.
Details: The Mesquite Heat wildfire south of Abilene has burned almost 10,000 acres and is 25% contained as of Friday morning.
Firefighters are facing two more days of intense heat and difficult conditions fighting wildfires in West Texas. A cold front should move into the area by Sunday with the potential for beneficial rainfall.
Fire officials said that 10 homes had been destroyed in south Taylor County as the Mesquite Heat fire burned for a second day,
Several large wildfires burning in Texas continue to rapidly grow and spread, prompting one county to declare a disaster and evacuate residents being threatened by the flames.