by Ava Grace, Natural News:

The Texas Department of Agriculture estimates that over 10,000 cattle have been killed by wildfires that recently ravaged the Texas Panhandle and neighboring areas.

The Smokehouse Creek Fire, as it is called, is the largest wildfire in the history of Texas. It has burned down at least 500 structures and 1,700 square miles in Texas and Oklahoma.

One of the people affected by the fire is Shane Pennigton, a 56-year-old cattle farmer near Canadian, Texas. When he first saw flames from an enormous wildfire approaching the ranch he manages, his first concern wasn’t his home. It was his animals.