Texas Wildfires: Evacuees Keep Tabs On Homes From Afar As State Burns 'Border To Border'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Texas Wildfires: Evacuees Keep Tabs On Homes From Afar As State Burns 'Border To Border'



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/texas-wildfire-burning-across-state_n_851555.html

MINERAL WELLS, Texas -- Since evacuating her lakeside Texas home, Jackie Fewell has turned her hotel room into the information hub for one of the state's largest wildfires, working the phones and using the Internet to get the word out to worried residents.

Fewell, her husband and several friends have been updating a blog she created about the fire around Possum Kingdom Lake, a community of mostly weekend homes about 70 miles west of Fort Worth. The fire has burned for nearly a week, tearing through several communities, consuming 150,000 acres and destroying about 150 homes and a church, according to the Texas Forest Service.

CNN quotes Texas Forest Service spokeswoman April Saginor: "We're actually seeing Texas burn from border to border. We've got it in west Texas, in east Texas, in north Texas, in south Texas -- it's all over the state. We've got one in the Dallas area that's four fires that have actually merged together."

Fewell, a partner in a real estate company, said residents have been desperate for accurate information – even sending as many as 100 emails an hour. "It's because they weren't living there to begin with full-time and they didn't know what was going on, and they were hearing these crazy reports," she said.

[aquart]

1. Ain't no climate change here.

[MineralMan]

2. God punishes?

A guy's gotta ask those questions, you know. I think I know the answer.

[Avalux]

3. I viewed the fires from an airplane at night,

flying from Denver to San Antonio. The area on fire is enormous and what I could see was beautiful and horrific at the same time. We haven't had any rain here for awhile; the driest spring on record.

[Loki]

4. Hey Gov. Perry aka Mr. Goodhair

Gotchur hand out for that gubmint dollar. What happened, did the fire burn yer bootstraps up? Dumbass Republican.