Texas Wildfire Threatens 2,000 Homes
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(June 16, 2008)--Firefighters from more than a dozen agencies battled Monday to stop a 700-acre wildfire before it reaches about 2,000 homes near Brownwood.

Crews contended with hot and windy conditions to head off the fire, which approached within a mile of the subdivision.

Firefighters were using bulldozers, helicopters and air tankers in the effort to stop the flames from spreading.

Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Mary Kay Hicks said two volunteer firefighters were treated at a Brownwood hospital for heat exhaustion.

No other injuries or structural damage have been reported so far.

The fire was about 30 percent contained by late Monday afternoon.

Hicks says it's unclear how the fire started at Camp Bowie, a Texas Army National Guard training facility near Brownwood.

Also, in West Texas, a 315-acre fire initially threatened three homes in Crockett County south of Ozona before crews started gaining control of it Monday afternoon.

By early this evening, crews had contained 90 percent of a 1,500-acre wildfire in western Brewster County and 95 percent of a 90-acre fire in the eastern part of the Big Bend County.

They've also got 90 percent control of a 1,090-acre blaze in Potter County in the Panhandle.

Firefighters had extinguished all of a 625-acre blaze in Schleicher County in West Texas and all of a 400-acre fire in Clay County in northwest Texas.

Wildfire Resources

Click Here For Texas Emergency Management Situation Reports From The Governor's Division Of Emergency Management

Click Here For Texas Wildfire Information And Reports From The Texas Forest Service


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