September 6, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
BASTROP, Texas — One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in Texas history left more than 1,000 homes in ruins yesterday and stretched the state’s firefighting ranks to the limit, confronting Gov. with a disaster at home just as the presidential contest heats up. 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 , that raged out of control Tuesday for a third day. 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…
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