LA Times: Ranchers flung open gates in hopes their livestock could escape fast-moving flames. One family watched in horror as two of their horses caught fire and galloped away. Homes, barns, oil field pump jacks and thousands of acres of rangeland are now blackened.
Such were the scenes in drought-plagued west Texas, where the mammoth Rock House fire has raged for two weeks, part of a complex of more than a dozen fires stretching across a swath cut by the Pecos River.
No part of Texas has been spared.......
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Fires burn Texas from ‘stem to stern.’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 23rd, 2011
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