DALLAS — A second death has been reported from the wildfires still racing across the Texas panhandle.
But as weather conditions improve the odds for firefighters somewhat, help from across the state is racing into the most impacted counties too.
Family members say the second wildfire victim is Cindy Owen, a woman caught in a wildfire near Pampa. She was reportedly taken by ambulance to a hospital in Oklahoma City where she died. Her family created a GoFundMe to help with funeral expenses.
Joyce Blankenship, an 83-year-old former substitute teacher, was the first reported fire fatality in Stinnett.
As of Thursday afternoon, the Texas A&M Forest Service estimated the Smokehouse Creek Fire, which merged with the 687 Reamer Fire, had grown 1,075,000 acres, and at only 3% contained, was now the largest in state history.
Governor Abbott's office said he will visit the panhandle and will hold a press conference in Borger on Friday. Borger is about an hour and a half away from Canadian.
From her home in Canadian, Texas, Mallori Wilhelm showed ABC News the remnants of her family's home, most of it and their ranch buildings destroyed.
"We've been in situations like this before that have to, close to evacuation," Wilhelm said. " I don't think we've ever had to evacuate. But you just don't really think that you're going to come home to nothing."
Which is why Brian Murnahan and the Red Cross set up shop Thursday at the Hemphill County Library in Canadian. A second Red Cross Disaster Assistance Center was being set up at Fairlanes Baptist Church in the town of Borger.
"As we were coming in, both sides of the highway were burnt. All the way around the whole town is burnt," Murnahan said. "We're here to try to just make things a little bit easier and just make sure that they have support, they have a shoulder to lean on."
And more shoulders are on the way. Volunteers with Texas Baptist Men left Dallas early Thursday morning, with food and supplies, portable showers and portable kitchens....and something else.
"We want to bring help, hope, and healing to any situation we can," said Texas Baptist Men disaster relief director David Wells. "We look into the eyes of people, we know that they have hopelessness. They don't know where to even begin."
Meanwhile, firefighters, including dozens from north Texas fire departments, are hoping for help from changing weather patterns. Temperatures dropped into the 30s across the panhandle on Thursday. Scattered snow and rain are helping firefighters get an upper hand.
"Over the next couple of days it will be favorable so we'll try to make as much progress as we can," said Sean Dugan with Texas A&M Forest Service.
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