Texas lawmakers being asked for huge wildfire protection expenditure. While they're thinking about that, you might consider whether you might be underinsured.
DALLAS — Aside from the devastation we’ve been seeing on TV from California, wildfire probably isn’t on your list of top concerns. But it is probably quickly climbing that list for some here in Texas.
At the same time that wildfires were still raging out of control in Los Angeles last month, a new legislative session was just starting in Austin. And Texas lawmakers were being asked to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to hopefully prevent future fires here from being as damaging or deadly.
And there will be future fires here. Since 2005, this state has experienced more than 200,000 wildfires. Two of those blew up to become just larger than the entire city of Los Angeles. Two others — the Smokehouse Creek fire and the East Amarillo Complex fire — exploded to each become the size of three L.A.s!
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