Controlled burn sites created to contain a disastrous wildfire at the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge March 7, 2018.

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March 9, 2018, a fire intended to burn river cane on the bank of the Rio Grande spread with the wind across the river and began to burn grassland and brush on the Texas side. More than 330 acres of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge was destroyed before containment fires controlled the fire's spread.

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Location: Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Alamo, TX, USA
Photo credit: © Jess Merrill / Alamy / Afripics
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