Publication Date October 15, 2015 | Dallas News

D/FW reaches new record high temperature; grass fires north, south of Dallas

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“We’ve been so dry for so long, and now that you’re seeing cool mornings, there’s a lot of vegetation that will dry out pretty quick, so you can get a vast number of small fires developing really quickly on days like today,” says Jason Dunn, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Fort Worth office.