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CANADIAN, Texas (Reuters) -Fire crews fought to contain a wildfire that grew to the largest on record in Texas history on Thursday after scorching more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares) of grassland and timber, and destroying homes in small towns that dot the Panhandle region. The blaze, dubbed the Smokehouse Creek Fire, had doubled in size since Wednesday and was 3% contained on Thursday morning, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. On Thursday, Jason Wilhelm, 36, was using a frontloader to clear the lot in Canadian, a town about 100 miles (161 km) northeast of Amarillo, w...

By Joe Sutton, Steve Almasy, Holly Yan, Robert Shackelford and David Williams, CNN

The catastrophic infernos ripping across the Texas Panhandle have killed at least one person and threaten to destroy more homes, cattle and livelihoods as the second-largest wildfire in state history

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CANADIAN, Texas (Reuters) -Fire crews fought to contain a wildfire that grew to the largest on record in Texas history on Thursday after scorching more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares) of grassland and timber, and destroying homes in small towns that dot the Panhandle region. The blaze, dubbed the Smokehouse Creek Fire, had doubled in size since Wednesday and was 3% contained on Thursday morning, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. On Thursday, Jason Wilhelm, 36, was using a frontl