Disastrous Texas Wildfire Now Worst in State’s History

It’s razed hundreds of homes, blackened tens of thousands of acres, and forced some 5,000 people to evacuate. And with all that, it’s now officially the worst wildfire in Texas state history. Firefighters are battling to contain and subdue a 16-mile-wide, wind-fed wildfire in Bastrop County—about 30 miles southeast of Austin, though moving away from

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Disastrous Texas Wildfire Now Worst in State’s History

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