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The Smokehouse Creek Fire has merged with another blaze and is 3 percent contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.

The fire's explosive growth slowed as snow, winds and temperatures fell, but it was still untamed and threatening more death and destruction.

A wildfire spreading across the Texas Panhandle became the largest in state history Thursday, as a dusting of snow covered scorched prairie, dead cattle and burned out homes and gave firefighters a brief window of relief in desperate efforts to corral the blaze.

A wildfire spreading across the Texas Panhandle has become the largest in state history. Authorities say the Smokehouse Creek fire grew Thursday to nearly 1,700 square miles of scorched rural

The Smokehouse Creek Fire is officially the largest and most devastating fire in Texas ' history - with the killer inferno burning through over 1.1 million acres of land.