worst fire season in history gets worse by the hour. this is the worst of the worst. southeast of austin, 30,000 acres consumed, hundreds of homes destroyed, zero containment. this fire started sunday, barely 48 hours ago, and already governor rick perry calls it as mean a fire as he has ever seen and he s seen a whole lot of wildfires this year. the texas forest service counts 294 consecutive days of wildfires somewhere in the state. you see the numbers here behind me. not coincidentally, it s been a year of historic drought. so far this year, more than 3 1/2 million acres have burned, about as much land as the entire state of connecticut. in the past 48 hours, more than 700 homes have been lost. many, many more are now in danger. we don t have room to list all the fires that are burning right now or even all of the biggest ones, actually, so here s just a sampling for you. there s the bastrop fire. in travis county, a fire has burned 6500 acres and 67 homes. you may also re