Monday, September 12, 2011

Updates On Three Largest Wild Fires

The tally is now 1,554 homes burned in those massive fires that are raging near Austin. Over one hundred-thousand acres burning in just three major fires today. The Texas Forest Service says the 34,000-acre Bastrop County Complex Fire is now sixty percent contained with no fires burning outside the fire containment lines. The forty thousand-acre Bear Creek Fire in Cass County is eighty percent contained. Meanwhile, the 19,000-acre Riley Road blaze in Grimes, Montgomery and Waller Counties has destroyed at least 73 homes. It's now 75 percent contained.

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