Smoke from a grass fire on the east side of Galveston Bay blanketed Texas City this morning, prompting a flood of phone calls, The Galveston County Daily News reports:

Bruce Clawson, the city of Texas City’s Homeland Security director, sent phone messages to residents, letting them know of the situation.

“It’s an industrial town, and we received a lot of phone calls,” Clawson said. “We called and verified the source of the smoke, which smelled like a grass fire.”

Clawson learned the smoke was possibly coming from the Bolivar Peninsula or somewhere on the east side of Galveston Bay.