County looks to Abbott for disaster declaration

With smaller wildfires claiming more and more acreage around Kendall County and larger-scale fires encroaching on the county line, Kendall County Judge Darrell Lux is looking to Gov. Greg Abbott for approval to issue a disaster declaration in the county.

Over the past weekend, a fire ignited at BSA-Camp Bullis that is estimated to have burned roughly 3,000 acres and was about 70 percent contained as of about noon Monday, according to published reports.

Further, there have been a handful of smaller fires ignited in Kendall County over the past several weeks, most of which were reported as roadside fires that could’ve been started by a host of sources, according to local fire officials.