'Honorable mention' goes to Crosby photo at Ag Expo

Lauren Crosby, part-time staffer at The Odessa Record, submitted a photo she took for the newspaper in the Ag Expo Photography Contest this year, receiving 'honorable mention' for her efforts.

The photo depicts the runaway wheat-field fire that took place in July of 2010 and which was the paper's front-page photo the week after the fire. Firefighters thought they would soon be mopping up, but the blaze of unknown origin flared into a major conflagration as the wind picked up and drove it through irrigated wheat at the Jay Scrupps farm and on into sage brush and pasture land.

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