Remembering Bastrop’s 2011 wildfire with community event

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) — Two lives lost. Thirty-four-thousand acres of scorched earth. Hundreds of homes burnt to the ground.
On Sept. 4, 2011, sparks from a damaged power line grew into a plume of black smoke filling the sky around Bastrop State Park. What would become the largest and most destructive wildfire in the state of Texas ended up burning for nearly 30 days.
Five years later, the Bastrop County community is stronger than ever—especially after another wildfire ripped through