Anyone displaced from the Ross fire in palo pinto and now jack counties? They are saying 0% contained and now 50,000 acres and growing

This is one of the fastest growing fires I've ever paid attention to. Not affecting our family place 90 miles SW, but praying for all those affected.

Ross Fire Map

Longhorn Council's Worth Ranch is in the middle of it, and they've likely lost their main camp and structures.

I'm waiting to see if Rocker B Ranch was taken out. That is a really cool place that is very important to little league baseball. If the maps are right, it looks like it was in the middle of it. Sad

Prayers for all. Lord please help protect these people, their land and all the wildlife.

Ark03 said:

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Longhorn Council's Worth Ranch is in the middle of it, and they've likely lost their main camp and structures.

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From their most recent update:

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First and foremost, we are grateful to report that there were no Scouts, campers, or guests on the property when the fire entered the area. Additionally, Pat Adams, the Camp Ranger, was safely evacuated.

While damage assessments are still ongoing, we can confirm that multiple structures at Worth Ranch have sustained catastrophic damage. The full extent of the impact will not be known until emergency officials determine it is safe to enter the property and conduct a thorough evaluation.

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Have a friend that has a big high-fence ranch south of Jacksboro off Hwy 4. They've been telling him it was contained and everything was good until about 30 minutes ago when they called him and said they've lost containment and are abandoning all their equipment. They wouldn't let him come get his animals earlier today. He probably going to lose all of them. Sad.

I watched a helicopter flyover of Worth Ranch a little while ago, it doesn't look good at all, just glad no one was hurt.

Any updates from Jacksboro folks? Looks like there's a little rain in the area.

The skies in Parker Co are so hazy.

My place is a mile east of Perrin. Not feeling great about it. Will watch closely today.

I'm hearing 80k acres this morning on the Ross fire

Nothing worse than seeing the burned up carcasses of animals trapped in high fence ranches

Just got some before and after photos of a friend's deer lease. Out of respect for privacy, I won't post them, but man...just utter destruction.

Everything just piles of ash and debris.

Bucketrunner said:

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Nothing worse than seeing the burned up carcasses of animals trapped in high fence ranches

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Agreed. He got lucky. Half of his ranch burned up but they had the other half to run to. He found one dead fawn.

I can't believe this thing is still so active. Found a good map showing activity.

Ross Fire Map

I have family in the area. They told me they were joining crews fighting the fires in their pastures trying to keep them from reaching the barns. They were watching the fires chase their heifers until they were able to get enough hand line put down. Fortunately no animals burned since they had safer ground to run to, but I imagine I'll be up there in the next couple weeks helping rebuild fence.

It's also wild hearing about Worth Ranch having gone there almost 20 years ago.