[net-gold] DISASTERS: FIRE : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS: With Calmer Winds, Texas Firefighters Make Progress Against Vast Blaze
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- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: FIRE :
UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS:
With Calmer Winds, Texas Firefighters Make Progress Against Vast Blaze
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With Calmer Winds, Texas Firefighters Make Progress Against Vast Blaze
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: September 6, 2011
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/us/07wildfire.html
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BASTROP, Tex. Bob and Margaret Austin stared at the hills in the
distance, where towering plumes of white and black smoke stretched across
the blue horizon Tuesday. They had survived the flames of a wildfire, but
they had no idea if their house had been as lucky.
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About 11 a.m. Monday, a state trooper told the couple that they had 15
minutes to evacuate. They filled their two vehicles with her grandmothers
jewelry, his firearms and their mortgage papers and photo albums, along
with a puppy and a kitten. They realized later that they had left behind
the urn with Mr. Austins mothers ashes.
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Fifteen minutes is not a lot of time, said Mr. Austin, 62. You think of a
thousand things after youve left.
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The couple had fled the most destructive wildfire in the history of Texas,
a vast blaze that has destroyed 550 homes in Bastrop County in Central
Texas and killed two people since it began Sunday, one of a series of
wildfires that have broken out around the state in recent days.
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By Tuesday afternoon, the Bastrop fire continued to burn as dozens of
evacuated residents from outlying subdivisions sought aid at Bastrop
Middle School, which officials had turned into a shelter.
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You look at peoples faces around here, and it looks like theyve been in a
war, Mr. Austin said, leaning against a school wall as American Red Cross
workers and evacuees walked in and out of the cafeteria. I talked to an
elderly couple in their 80s last night, and they got out with just their
clothes and their dog.
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Since wildfire season began in November 2010, nearly 21,000 fires have
destroyed more than 1,500 homes throughout Texas, according to state
officials. More than half of those destroyed residences roughly 770 have
been lost since dozens of new fires erupted over the Labor Day weekend,
fueled by high winds and the dry conditions created by the states worst
one-year drought on record. Throughout Central Texas and other parts of
the state, including Montgomery County near Houston, about 2,000
firefighters were battling wildfires that have burned more than 118,400
acres in recent days.
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