Xcel Energy - responsible for Smokehouse Creek Fire

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takes responsibility for the Smokehouse Creek fire. In the Panhandle. Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire,” the company said in a statement Thursday. They are encouraging people who had property destroyed or livestock lost in the Smokehouse Creek fire to submit a claim to Xcel Energy. Texas A&M Forest Service have concluded their investigation. The service found that power lines ignited both the Smokehouse Creek and the Windy Deuce fires. Xcel is only claiming the Smokehouse Creek Fire but not the Windy Deuce.