Wildfires wiped out 86 homes and most of the small town of Carbon, Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported on Saturday, as four fires west of Dallas burned 22,000 hectares and killed a sheriff’s deputy who was helping people flee.
The four fires, designated as the Eastland Complex, have raged since Wednesday or Thursday in Eastland County, about 190km west of Dallas, and were about 30 percent contained, the Texas A&M Forest Services said on Saturday.
About 85 percent of Carbon, with a population of 225, was burned, the newspaper reported, publishing photographs of homes that were reduced to rubble.
An Eastland Fire