Grass fire burns large acreage north of Rotan

- Fire behind the mountains -

According to information from KTXS News in Abilene, the billowing smoke that could be seen yesterday on the northern horizon near Rotan, behind the Double Mountains, was from the Peacock Fire in Stonewall County, and 2,000 acres burned as of midnight last night.

In the Fire and Smoke section of the Austin American-Statesman, the fire was listed as 75% contained at 2:17 p.m. today. It also says the fire management complexity is a type 5 incident and the fire cause is undetermined.

Wildfires can be tracked on the smoke map provided by the Statesman. 

The  National Interagency Coordination Center also has a fire map.

The Peacock Fire has left a thin haze around the mountains.