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Why floods and wildfires are both possible this winter in DFW

Forecasters are predicting an 80 percent chance of an El Niño this winter and 55-60 percent chance that it extends into spring. But paradoxically, that wet fall may be the perfect recipe for another dangerous wildfire season.

Standing at the edge of a wide open pasture, Parker County Fire Marshal Kurt Harris can vividly recall what happened in January.

Smoke stated rising dangerously close to a Willow Park neighborhood as a wildfire sparked by a downed power line began racing across a pasture.

A cluster of homes were immediately in its path.

“It went so fast,” Harris said Wednesday. “It burned right under the wood fences. In one backyard, it went right under a trampoline.”

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