Five years ago on Sept. 4, a small fire sparked around the Circle D-KC Estates north of Bastrop, when winds shook a few loblolly pines into a string of electrical lines. The fire quickly turned into a monster that burned 34,000 acres in Bastrop County. It torched 1,660 homes, injured 12 people and killed two others. The Bastrop County Complex Fire is deemed the most destructive wildfire in Texas history. Today, the event has become a marker for how people in Bastrop County talk about time: before and after the fire. Tamir Kalifa Firefighters from the Coppell Fire Department, who traveled from the Dallas area Sept. 5, 2011, help contain a brushfire around the property of Mount Pleasant...
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