The main facility that assembles and disassembles America’s nuclear arsenal shut down Tuesday night.
Flower Mound firefighters respond to a rapidly widening wildfire in the Texas Panhandle on Feb. 27, 2024. | Flower Mound Fire Department via APCANADIAN, Texas — Rapidly moving Texas wildfires Tuesday prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down a nuclear facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fueled the blaze in the state’s rural Panhandle.
The largest blaze, known as the Smokehouse Creek Fire, closed highways and remained zero percent contained as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the Forest Service. Since 1975, Pantex has been the U.S. main assembly and disassembly site for its atomic bombs. It assembled the last new bomb in 1991. In the time since, it has dismantled thousands of weapons.Multiple fires were reported across Hemphill and Hutchinson counties near the Oklahoma border, where some evacuations were also ordered.
Evacuations were also taking place in Skellytown, Wheeler, Allison and Briscoe, according to the National Weather Service in Amarillo.
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