Fatal Wildfire-Smoke Highway Crash Near Amarillo, Texas Claims a 5-Year-Old Girl’s Life: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Interstate Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Utility Companies Whose Downed Lines Ignite Fires, the Highway Authorities Who Fail to Close Smoke-Blinded Interstates, and the Property Owners Whose Negligent Fuel Loads Feed the Spread, We Pull the TxDOT Closure-Decision Logs, the Forest Service Origin-and-Cause Reports, the 911 Dispatch Records and the Vehicle EDR Data Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Hides Behind the Act-of-God Defense, Under Texas Wrongful Death Law a Young Child’s Claim Is Not Imputed With a Parent-Driver’s Comparative Negligence, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Amarillo, Texas Wildfire Smoke Highway Deaths: Who Is Responsible When Smoke Causes a Fatal Crash You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from the interstate. The Panhandle wind pushed wildfire smoke across the highway — thick enough to swallow the road, thick enough to erase the taillights ahead — and in those seconds of near-zero visibility, a crash happened that should not have happened. A five-year-old girl is dead. Fifty-eight families lost their homes. And the first thing the insurance adjuster or the government spokesperson told you was probably some version of “it was an act of God” or “nobody could have prevented this.” We are here to tell you that the law does not accept that answer as easily as the people saying it do. A wildfire may be a natural event, but the chain of decisions that turned that natural event into a fatal highway hazard — the fire’s origin, the highway that stayed open, the warnings that came too late or not at all — is a chain of human choices. And human choices have legal consequences. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death claims and catastrophic…