Fire burns more than 850 acres in Big Bend National Park, may have started near popular campsite
Chisos Basin is closed due to fire
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Smoke at Boot Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Image: NPS / M. Woolley (National Park Service)
A fire at Big Bend National Park that has burned for nearly a week has grown to at least 863 acres.
The National Park Service, which oversees the park in Far West Texas, said Monday that much of the fire is located in the “sky island” in the high Chisos Mountains.
The blaze has “left a patchy mosaic of scorched, burned, slightly singed, and untouched areas across the South Rim to Emory Peak, and into the lower Boot Canyon drainage,” officials said, adding that about two-thirds of the fire became stagnant after reaching rocky terrain or the edges of cliffs.
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The fire has burned more than 800 acres in the Chisos Mountains over five days.Â
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4/12/2021 at 4:01pm
Smoke in Big Bend National Park s Boot Canyon
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Although the wildfire at Big Bend National Park has spread to 929 acres, according to the National Parks Service Wednesday morning, about 35 percent of it has been contained. The Carson Hotshots, a firefighting crew from the Carson National Forest in New Mexico, arrived Monday night to help the other crews battling the blaze. The total number of firefighters working in the Chisos Mountains is now 88. Follow along with updates here.Â
The South Rim Fire has continued to burn through woodlands and grass of the high Chisos Mountains, creating plumes of smoke visible throughout Big Bend National Park.