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Title: At least 500 people flee Texas wildfire (AP)
Post by: riky on March 19, 2008, 07:01:27 PM
At least 500 people flee Texas wildfire
    (AP)

 



<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080316/capt.5b1bab35b2044e618924c1633e7f3ee3.texas_wildfires_tpwd102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CPAzQiHulU_SKVaia.5XVQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This photo provided by the Texas Parks and Wildfire Department (TPWD), Len Polasek, left, and Joe Herrera of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department watch a line of wildfire burn across TPWD's Chaparral Wildlife Management Area, Saturday, March 15, 2008. The fire burned about 95 percent of the 15,200-acre property in La Salle and Dimmit Counties south of San Antonio, causing no injuries and sparing most of the facilities but destroying a research building and several vehicles. Wind-whipped wildfires burned across Texas and southeastern New Mexico on Friday, destroying five homes and prompting evacuation orders in one community.  (AP Photo/ Texas Parks and Wildfire Department, Chase Fountain)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080319/ap_on_re_us/texas_wildfires)AP - A wildfire blamed on a fallen power line in the Rio Grande Valley spread to about 25,000 acres Wednesday, forcing hundreds from their homes.</p><br clear="all"/>


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