Firefighters held back flames threatening rifle range’s ammo and guns

A brush fire threatened to set off which could have been a devastating blast  at a shooting range building full of ammunition and weapons in southeast Lubbock County. The blaze was ignited by a flaming tracer bullet on the outdoors range. Officials said the flames approached within 50 yards of the Rustic Range office near FM 400 and County Road 7300. Range employee Scott Harmon said the fire was set off when  a customer at the 100-yard, outdoor rifle range fired an incendiary tracer bullet tracer that landed on a canyon embankment just under 200 yards from the range office. Six firefighting units from Slaton and the area kept the fire from reaching the building stocked with ammunition and gun powder. Harmon said had the fire got to the building, the result would have been devastating.