Texas wildfires destroy 86 homes and most of small town

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TEXAS - Wildfires wiped out 86 homes and a majority of the small town of Carbon, Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported on Saturday , as four fires west of Dallas burned 22,000ha and killed a sherif

f's deputy who was helping people flee.

About 85 per cent of Carbon, with a population of 225, was burned, the newspaper reported, publishing photos of homes that were reduced to piles of rubble. Driven by strong winds and feasting on dry brush, the fires consumed most of Carbon within three hours, the Morning News said, based on a reporter's dispatch from the town.

Governor Greg Abbott on Friday declared a disaster in 11 Texas counties and ordered flags to be lowered to half staff in Eastland County in honour of the sheriff's deputy Barbara Fenley, his office announced.

 

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