[net-gold] DISASTERS: FIRES : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS: Texas Fires Kill 4, Destroy More than 1,000 Homes
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- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:20:59 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: FIRES :
UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS:
Texas Fires Kill 4, Destroy More than 1,000 Homes
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Texas Fires Kill 4, Destroy More than 1,000 Homes
By MICHAEL GRACZYK
The Associated Press
Atlanta Journal Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/texas-fires-kill-4-1160119.html
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BASTROP, Texas One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in Texas
history left more than 1,000 homes in ruins Tuesday and stretched the
state's firefighting ranks to the limit, confronting Gov. Rick Perry with
a major disaster at home just as the GOP presidential contest heats up.
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More than 180 fires have erupted in the past week across the rain-starved
Lone Star State, and nearly 600 of the homes destroyed since then were
lost in one catastrophic blaze in and around Bastrop, near Austin, that
raged out of control Tuesday for a third day.
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Whipped into an inferno by Tropical Storm Lee's winds over the weekend,
the blaze burned more than 45 square miles, forced the evacuation of
thousands and killed at least two people, bringing the overall death toll
from the outbreak to at least four.
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"We lost everything," said Willie Clements, whose two-story colonial home
in a housing development near Bastrop was reduced to a heap of metal
roofing and ash. A picket fence was melted. Some goats and turkeys
survived, but about 20 chickens and ducks were burned to death in a coop
that went up in flames.
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On Tuesday, Clements and his family took a picture of themselves in front
of a windmill adorned with a charred red, white and blue sign that
proclaimed, "United We Stand."
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"This is the beginning of our new family album," the 51-year-old Clements
said.
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Perry cut short a presidential campaign trip to South Carolina to deal
with the crisis. On Tuesday, he toured a blackened area near Bastrop,
which is about 25 miles from Austin.
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"Pretty powerful visuals of individuals who lost everything," he said.
"The magnitude of these losses are pretty stunning."
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The governor would not say whether he would take part in Wednesday
evening's Republican presidential debate in California, explaining that he
was "substantially more concerned about making sure Texans are being taken
care of." But campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in an email later in the
day that Perry planned to be there.
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