Although everyone should still take appropriate precautions, recent rains have significantly lowered the risk of Fourth-of-July fireworks – or anything else, for that matter – igniting wildland fires in Lamesa. Giving his regular fire threat report to the Dawson County Commissioners Court this past Tuesday, Lamesa Fire Chief Larry Duyck said the risk for wildland fires here is around the lowest he’s ever seen it. That’s based on the county’s Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) information produced by the Special Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M University in partnership with the Texas A&M Forest Service. This past Monday, Dawson County had a rating of just ...