863 Acre Fire Burns at Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park over the last week that now stands at
863 acres and growing.
The National Park Service and KSAT.com report that the fire is centered in sky island which is located in the
Chisos Mountains. It comes at a time when the park is finally seeing an uptick in visitors after seeing far fewer people in 2020.
From the brief video clip above, you can see the smoke coming from areas of the park where the fire is burning.
Big 2 News reports it s a patchy landscape of burned or scorched earth, and then some areas of the land untouched by the fire.