FLYING FIREFIGHTING A large airtanker dropped retardant on the Bell Fire in Dickens County on March 26, 2026. | COURTESY L. MCNEE; TEXAS A&M FOREST SERVICE.
Last Thursday, while fire departments from Dickens, Spur, McAdoo, Motley County, Floydada and the Texas Forest Service were fighting the 435-acre Bell Fire in northern Dickens County, a drone entered …