An East Texas wildfire that covered nearly 100 acres is now contained.
It happened on a private ranch in Van Zandt County, north of Highway 80, northwest of Edgewood.
“We first got the page for a grass and brush fire off of 1395 and 3702,” said Wills Point Fire Captain Christopher DeBoard. “On our way out there we saw a heavy column of smoke and that’s when we started calling for reinforcements, right off the bat."
The Wills Point fire department enlisted the help of the Edgewood fire department and eventually the Texas Forestry Service to fight a fire that eventually became 100 acres.
“Once we arrived on scene, the fire was moving rapidly,” said DeBoard. “It got to a point where we couldn’t get any further into it because it was very thick woods, so we set up different sectors with two to three trucks at each sector.