
A series of wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle early Wednesday, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing the brief shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fed the blazes.
The main facility that disassembles America’s nuclear arsenal paused operations Tuesday night but said it was open for normal work on Wednesday.
The Pantex plant, northeast of Amarillo, evacuated non-essential staff from the site on Tuesday night out of an “abundance of caution,” Laef Pendergraft, a spokesperson for National Nuclear Security Administration’s Production Office at Pantex, said during a news conference, adding that firefighters remained in case of an emergency.
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Somebody must’ve planned a “smart city”
@AnteaterJohnDemocrat2yrs2Y
No federal aid for Texas in light of Gov Abbott talking about secession recently. Let them fend for themselves.
Absolutely terrifying to see those fires and seemingly no way to contain them with the winds right now.
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