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Grass fires scorch

Oklahoma, Texas

Governors activate

emergency operations as winds fan flames

Tuesday,

December 27, 2005; Posted: 10:56 p.m. EST (03:56 GMT)

 

(CNN) -- Dozens of grass fires

raged Tuesday across tinder-dry central Oklahoma and parts of Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry declared a disaster and

dispatched National Guard troops to help battle the flames.

A persistent drought has blanketed Texas since early summer,

causing the worst fire threat in five years, Perry's office said in a

written statement.

The fires in the Lone Star State were mostly in the central, north-central and northeast regions.

One of the worst outbreaks was reported in Cross Plains,

where a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety told CNN affiliate

KTXS-TV that about two dozen homes or structures had been burned.

Cross Plains is a town of about 1,000, located about 43

miles southeast of Abilene.

In Kennedale, a town of about 6,000 near Fort Worth, flames devoured

outbuildings and a few homes and left heavy smoke hanging over neighborhoods.

Kennedale Mayor Jim Norwood said Tuesday night that about

300 acres in the town had burned.

" Most of the people in the community here pulled

together and kept it from getting into our neighborhoods, " he said.

" It has quieted down quite a bit. "

Some residents used garden hoses to help keep flames at bay

and shovels to douse hot spots.

Perry's disaster declaration allowed him to activate the state emergency

management plan, placing the Division of Emergency Management in charge.

He said four helicopters from the National Guard -- plus two

single-engine air tankers and two helicopters from the U.S. Forest Service --

were being deployed in the firefighting effort.

Fires began in Texas on Sunday but spread rapidly Tuesday afternoon when winds

picked up, said Traci Weaver of

the Texas Forestry Service.

" We have fires all over Texas, " she told CNN Tuesday

afternoon.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/27/grass.fires/index.html

 

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