It’s no surprise that the chances of grassland and woodland fires is up across the state. Fires already claimed two lives, 1.25 million acres and cropland, hundreds of homes and ranches; and thousands of livestock in the Texas Panhandle for over a week.Those fires continued burning Tuesday when Dawson County Fire Chief Larry Duyck presented a fire threat report to county commissioners.Fritch Fire Chief Zeb Smith, 40, whose small community was hardest hit by the fires in Hutchinson County, died Tuesday morning in a house fire unrelated to the Panhandle fires.Smith entered the residence, but didn’t leave. First responders found ...