A brush fire in Aransas Pass forced people who live on Johnson Road off I-35 out of their homes. They returned Monday.
“There was nothing but a huge orange sky. Nothing but flames, fire and smoke and that’s all you can see,” Missy Wilson said.
Missy tells us she and her dog Gypsy are still shaken up from what they saw Sunday night.
The fire was close to their home.
“I grabbed the dogs and all my stuff, and I put it in the vehicle, and we left,” Wilson said.
As Missy put distance between her and the fire, she recorded a video showing the size of the fire.
“All of the emergency vehicles were trying to get down here and help fight the fire,” Wilson said.
Aransas County officials tell us more than a dozen agencies from surrounding counties helped to contain this grass fire.
KRIS 6 News Texas Forestry and Rockport Volunteer Fire Department stayed behind to keep it from spreading.
“When we came in this morning, they still had the mobile command center right off the highway and we didn’t know if we should turn onto our street. It’ still smoking and we didn’t know if we still had a place or not,” Christopher Cormier said.