“We’ve been on fire for 24 hours,” Butler said. She added that “our ranch is on its own as all fire departments had to move into town to save communities.”

The city of Pampa, population around 16,000, suggested a voluntary evacuation Tuesday. “All resources are still fighting the fire north of town,” Pampa’s government said on Facebook.

In Canadian, to the east, schools were canceled for Wednesday.

“I hope everyone is safe,” the superintendent of the Canadian Independent School District, Lynn Pulliam, said in a message to the community.

By Tuesday evening, “red flag” warnings, which indicate an increased risk of wildfires, covered northwestern and northern Texas, most of Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri, according to the weather service.

High wind warnings were also issued across northwestern Texas.

In addition to the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the Grape Vine Creek Fire, also in the Texas Panhandle, was around 30,000 acres with 20% containment, and the Juliet Pass Fire was a little more than 2,900 acres and 90% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.