Hot! Iconic Statue Big Tex Goes Up In Flames

The Big Tex bronze sculpture had been engulfed throughout fire on Oct. 19, 2012 around Dallas Texas.

/ Allison Griffin through KTVT

DALLAS State Fair involving Texas potential clients in addition to personnel had a scare when they found the actual beloved Big Tex statue swallowed up within hearth Friday morning.

By some time the criticism was decide to put out, Big Tex ended up being almost wholly burned, leaving guiding little more than the metal frame in the 52-foot-tall cowboy that is a good tattoo in the State Fair associated with Texas.

"It has been surreal," witness Allison Griffin informed CBS place KTVT throughout Dallas-Fort Worth . "In fact, a whole lot regarding folks did not know it. People had been nevertheless located plus consuming pictures when in front of Big Tex , including a person constantly do. Fair people were generating beyond and, once the fireplace started, it just grew very immediately along with began to engulf their complete body."

Some stuff which composed your towering structure's poker hands along with sleeves continue to could always be viewed as firefighters collected across the scorched location Friday.

Fair officials stated the spice initiated around some sort of magnetic generator inside the statue's neck, KTVT reported. Crews possess began to remove pieces in the used up sculpture to avoid almost any prospective incidents through the debris.

"We really don't know anything merely yet. All we can visualize is that anything with all the electrical electrical went wrong," Sally Womre considering the State Fair involving Texas believed to KTVT. "Big Tex can be wired to move his brain in addition to to speak, so that is certainly therapies consider perfect now."

In this specific Sept. 27, 2002 document photo, Big Tex embraces website visitors to the Texas State Fair throughout Dallas.

/ AP Photo/LM Otero

Big Tex's 75-gallon hat, 50-pound belt buckle and slow-moving drawl have been greeting point out fair site visitors having "Howdy folks!" considering that 1952. This year's fair, which often sales techniques Sunday, had been celebrating Big Tex's 60th birthday.

Fair spokeswoman Sue Gooding claimed no person ended up being injured in the hearth as well as added which the lady expects Big Tex to get back to get up coming year's state fair.

Video with the porcelain figurine upon criticism out of KHOU is so visible below.