Officials triple number of homes destroyed in Texas fire

Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Property

Some 1,386 homes have been destroyed in a monstrous fire burning southeast of Austin that has destroyed more homes than any other blaze in Texas history, county officials said on Thursday. The devastating new number -- nearly triple what officials had said earlier in the week -- is the county’s "best estimate" of the nearly 34,000-acre fire that’s been ripping through this rural, historic community since Sunday, said Bastrop County Emergency Coordinator Mike Fisher.


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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/08/us-texas-wildfires-idUSTRE78426D20110908?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
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