BASTROP, Texas, Sept. 6 (UPI) — Texas’ most destructive wildfire ever — one of more than 63 raging statewide — consumed more than 25,000 acres and 500 homes near Austin, officials said.
Another one of the wind-whipped infernos killed a mother and her 18-month-old child who were unable to escape their mobile home near Gladewater, east of Dallas.
The fires — driven by high winds across large areas of parched ground — forced Texas Gov. Rick Perry to leave the
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