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January 01, 2006
Dry weather worries firefighters in Texas, Okla.
Jerry Reimer looks through the charred remains of his grandmother in-law's home in Guthrie, Okla., on Monday, after it burned to the ground on Sunday.
RINGGOLD, Texas - Firefighters faced a threat of windier, warmer weather Tuesday as they battled fast-moving blazes that have virtually destroyed some small towns and charred hundreds of thousands of acres of drought-stricken Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Since Dec. 27, flames racing across grassland and farmland have destroyed more than 250 buildings. Four deaths were reported last week in Texas and Oklahoma...
On Monday, authorities went house to house in a search for victims in burned-out Texas towns including Ringgold. A weekend blaze destroyed most of the ranch-and-cattle community of about 100 people near the Oklahoma line. Fifty other homes and 40,000 acres were torched as wind swept the fire 13 miles from Ringgold to Nocona.
Posted by admin at January 1, 2006 07:14 PM