An official said that the house fire that Chief Zeb Smith responded to wasn't caused by a wildfire, but added that the 40-year-old had been battling the wildfires for over a week.
A Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died while fighting a house fire.A Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died Tuesday while fighting a house fire, authorities said.
"He was willing to put his own life on the line to save the property of others, and that is what Texas heroism is all about," Abbott said. "We're making progress here, that doesn't mean that the fire doesn't have potential to move," said Terry Krasko, a spokesperson with the Southern Area Incident Management Blue team, a team of federal, state, and local agencies.
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