Texas Ranch Owner Dismisses Class Suit Over Smokehouse Creek Fire

( January 6, 2025, 11:33 AM EST) -- AMARILLO, Texas — A Texas ranch owner and the three utility companies he accuses of controlling or maintaining an electrical line pole that snapped due to high winds and caused a February 2024 fire that burned more than 1 million acres in the Texas panhandle filed Jan. 3 in a federal court in that state a stipulation of voluntary dismissal of the class complaint....