Texas burning 'from border to border' ->"These are not normal days, this is not a spring that comes around often, we haven't seen conditions like these since 1917," Mary-Kay Hicks, Texas Forest Service, said.
195 counties are under burn bans in Texas, the only ones without in the area are Falls, Freestone, and Leon.
->Forest Service spokeswoman C.J. Norvell in Midland
The same fire threatens three small communities just north of San Angelo -- Robert Lee, Bronte and Tennyson, she said.
->Authorities have responded to 7,807 fires across more than 1.5 million acres since this year's wildfire season began, Gov. Rick Perry wrote over the weekend in a letter to President Barack Obama. Perry requested that the federal government declare Texas a disaster area. Fires have affected all but two of the state's 254 counties.
Perry noted that one firefighter has died and 18 others have been injured, while 244 homes have been destroyed and another 8,514 threatened residences "saved."
->In the Possum Kingdom complex west of Fort Worth, approximately 90 head of cattle were killed by the fire, said Webb.
->Flying over Stonewall, Knox and King counties with Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, Perry got a firsthand look at the more than 103,000 acres of rangelandburned by the fire, which ignited last Wednesday.
http://www.kxxv.com/story/14478447/central-texas-prepped-for-wildfire-danger
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/18/texas.forest.fires/
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/apr/12/governor-gets-aerial-tour-of-west-texas-fires/?partner=popular
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-texas-fires-20110420,0,1130313.story?track=rss
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/18/texas.forest.fires/