GoHorseShow is posting a Facebook link to the Wildfire Horse Refuge page where individuals can find help for their horses affected by the wildfires. Click here for more information.
VET HELP!! Vet in Bastrop trying to do triage out in the fields for the Bastrop animals and she is in desperate need of help. She needs vet or medical people to help her, bandages, meds… whatever she can get. Please contact Christy at 512-796-0327.
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(CBS/AP) BASTROP, Texas – Firefighters trying to control a wind-fueled wildfire that has destroyed nearly 500 homes in Central Texas were looking for a few overnight hours of diminished winds as thousands of evacuees spent the night away from their threatened homes.
There’s been no significant rainfall over central Texas for a year, said CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds, and today the consequences of that are being seen in Bastrop and other areas. Since December, wildfires have consumed 3.6 million acres of Texas – an area the size of the state of Connecticut.
Unfortunately, there is no rainfall in the forecast for the foreseeable future. The Texas Forest Service put out statement saying, “This is unprecedented fire behavior. No one on the face of this Earth has ever fought fires in these extreme conditions.”
Tom Boggus, director of the Texas Forest Service, told CBS’ “The Early Show” that as of this morning “There’s no containment right now.”
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