W. Nueces Wildfire Largely Concluded
A Brief Update
Good Morning Friends,
Just a brief note to satisfy everyone’s sense of completionism, and for those who aren’t following official announcements elsewhere. The West Nueces Wildfire is now all but concluded. Almost all local and area volunteer firefighters have returned to their homes. A small crew remained on scene watching for flare ups and mopping up any hotspots. So far, the official word is that about 1760 acres were burned.
There’s word an investigator from Texas A & M Forest Service is in the county looking into various possible causes, which include everything from illegal alien traffic to bizarre animal accidents— even unreported burning by an area rancher will be considered.
That isn’t to say that we’ve heard of any such burning— we have not— but any real investigation will include that possibility among all the others.
We’re including the news release from the Sheriff’s Office below with additional details— feels a little incestuous, but we’ll all just have to get over it.
As always, we should mention our day job which includes writing such releases for the Sheriff’s Office, and mention that the Dispatch with all of the opinions, flaws, and the occasional errors within are ours alone, that it is an entirely independent work product, issued without connection to the County or oversight and input from County officials. Should readers be concerned about possible conflicts of interest in the reporting here? Absolutely. Be concerned.
We should be back again with another dispatch of more customary length later this weekend— we’ve been paying attention to what may be a shift in the narrative around the state at large which can be summed up with the phrase: “Operation Lone Star, is the expense worth it?” It is a fact— it costs a lot of money to keep Texas Military Forces deployed to the border, and many are absolutely right to question what taxpayers are getting for their dollars.
We’ll see you then.