Texas Wildfires

Texas Fires Nearly Doused

AP | Posted 05.04.2012

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FORT DAVIS, Texas (AP) — An evacuation order for a rustic residential development threatened by a West Texas wildfire has been lifted after firefigh...

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Ron Paul Calls For No Federal Aid For Tornado Victims

Posted 03.05.2012

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Ron Paul has a message for victims of the tornadoes that killed dozens of people in the South and Midwest: buy insurance. "There is no such thing...

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Texas Wildfires Declared Officially Worst Season Ever In State's History

AP | Posted 01.20.2012

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- It's official: Last year's wildfire season was the worst in Texas history. The Texas Forest Service on Thursday announced t...

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Uncertainty Over Rebuilding After Devastating Texas Fires

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 02.24.2012

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BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Concrete foundations that have been cleared of rubble sit eerily empty amid charred remains of once majestic loblolly pines. D...

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Rains, Cooler Temps Ease Wildfire Concerns In Texas

John Harden | Posted 02.08.2012

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Johnson County, Texas hasn't had a burn ban in effect for three weeks, the ban's longest rescindment since one was enacted in early spring.

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Texas Wildfire Season Hits One-Year Mark With No End In Sight

Posted 01.15.2012

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By ANGELA K. BROWN, The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas -- The devastating Texas wildfire season reaches the one-year mark on Tuesday, and there...

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Popular Texas State Park A 'Moonscape' After Wildfires

AP | By MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 12.12.2011

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BASTROP, Texas -- Todd McClanahan surveys the fire-blackened tree trunks poking out of a thick carpet of ash, a normally green world turned black and ...

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With Deaths Of Forests, A Loss Of Crucial Climate Protectors

New York Times | Justin Gillis | Posted 12.01.2011

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WISE RIVER, Mont. — The trees spanning many of the mountainsides of western Montana glow an earthy red, like a broadleaf forest at the beginning of ...

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Texas Wildfires Spark Millions In Agriculture Losses

AP | Posted 11.28.2011

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Enough fencing to cross Texas from east to west nearly seven times, more than 1,500 head of livestock and swaths of pasture ...

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Extreme Weather Makes Portable Generators A Hit

AP | By MICHAEL HILL | Posted 11.28.2011

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-- Alex Iwashyna didn't realize how many of her neighbors in Richmond, Va., had backup generators until her own family bought one in the dark days af...

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Power Utility Sued After Massive Texas Wildfire

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 11.27.2011

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FORT WORTH, Texas — A utility knew about wildfire dangers amid Texas' severe drought but failed to remove dead trees and branches near power lin...

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Stop the Insanity: Please get a grip!

Randall | Posted 11.09.2011

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So much has been going on recently...seriously? It's been beyond craazzzy. David Cameron and Parliament seem to have their heart set on a mass badger killing, Texas was hit by wildfires and Republicans have been debating up a storm. But at least those laboratory chimps got released. Thank goodness!

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State: Huge Texas Blaze Cause Likely Electrical

AP | Posted 11.20.2011

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Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas -- Sparks from electric power lines likely started the blaze that became the most destructive wildfire in Texas hist...

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Last Of Fire-Weary Texans Allowed To Return Home

AP | Posted 11.16.2011

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BASTROP, Texas -- Officials say the last of thousands of central Texas residents forced to flee a massive and devastating wildfire have been allowed t...

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Praise the Lord and Pass the Tenth Amendment

Carl Pope | Posted 11.15.2011

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Perry may strut, but he's dangerously passive -- with a reckless willingness to attribute the fruits of this laziness to divine will.

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Texas Wildfire Protection Plan Lacks Funding

AP | DANNY ROBBINS and PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 11.14.2011

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SAN ANTONIO — Long before this month's historic wildfires in Texas, the state's forest service came up with a $20.4 million plan to stop the fla...

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INTERACTIVE PHOTO: Before And After The Texas Wildfire

Posted 11.12.2011

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Texas is dry. Really dry. This has been the worst drought in Texas since the 1950's, and the drought has been a perfect breeding ground for wildfi...

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Texas Wildfires Likely To Get Worse: 'Fire Forces Don't Get To Take A Day Off'

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 11.09.2011

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BASTROP, Texas -- Scorching temperatures, strong winds and dry vegetation are turning Texas wildfires into fast and furious dangers that hop from plac...

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Central Texas Wildfire Sees Progress On Ground

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 11.09.2011

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BASTROP, Texas — Residents left homeless by a massive Central Texas wildfire turned their attention Friday to what they need to move forward, wi...

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Residents Quickly Fled As Texas Wildfires Closed In

AP | By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 11.08.2011

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BASTROP, Texas -- Dennis Silman was in line at the store when his wife's urgent call came through: They needed to get out. Smoke was drifting up throu...

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Firefighters Experience Delay With Texas Wildfires

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

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BASTROP, Texas -- Firefighters can't use one of their biggest weapons against a devastating wildfire in Central Texas because they haven't assembled t...

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Aftermath Images Surface as Wildfires Still Burn

Andrew Shapter | Posted 11.07.2011

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It's day four in what is already being call the worst fire in Texas history.

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Rick Perry's Budget Leaves Texans In Bind Amidst Historic Wildfires

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As wildfires engulfed her Bastrop County, Texas, neighborhood on Sunday, Betty Dunkerley was forced to evacuate her home for safer groun...

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Perry Recalls Firefighters, Will Combat Wildfires with Prayer

Ben Ritz | Posted 11.07.2011

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In a surprise announcement, Governor Rick Perry has declared that he will sign an executive order recalling all of Texas' firefighters and implementing an "emergency mandatory day of prayer and fasting."

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WATCH: Texas Wildfire Spreads Across Field In A Minute

Posted 11.07.2011

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Firefighters in Bastrop, Texas, near Austin, are working to control a wildfire that has claimed lives and burned hundreds of homes. With lighter wi...

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