This year’s State Fair of Texas was supposed to be a celebration for Big Tex, marking his 60th birthday. Instead, the beloved cowboy caught on fire and was later hauled from the grounds on a flatbed truck two days before the end of the fair in a procession resembling a funeral, reports the Associated Press.
The fire brought a temporary end to a piece of Texas culture. The cowboy with the 75-gallon hat and 50-pound belt buckle always was easy to spot and served as a popular meeting place for people coming to the fair or attending the annual Texas-Oklahoma football game at the nearby Cotton Bowl. But all that remained by noon Friday were hands and shirt leaves on a burned, steel skeleton.
A Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman said that the cause of the fire had not been determined.
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