Crews are working to put out the Powder Keg Pine Fire near State Highway 71 and Harmon Road in Bastrop County.
Crews are making progress in containing a wildfire just east of Bastrop that led to dozens of homes being evacuated for much of Tuesday. Those evacuations have since been lifted. Office of Emergency Management said the fire broke out around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday just north of State Highway 71 and near Harmon Road, about four miles east of Bastrop. It ballooned from one acre to 30 in about an hour.
"I just got a page on my phone telling me that Harmon needed to be evacuated, and I opened my door and looked right out, and I see black smoke right across the street," said one resident who was evacuated.Residents between Harmon and Pine Hill Roads were told to evacuate when the fire started. Shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, the evacuation notice was lifted.
Crews from about 15 agencies worked to slowly contain the flames from the ground and the air, but the hot, windy and dry conditions did not help those efforts. For one evacuee who didn't want to be identified, the fire brought back traumatic memories of the deadly 2011 Bastrop Complex Fire.
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