yesterday and the homes we are receiving reports on now. heather: the fire season for you begins in november. this has been happ$hhjqr g since november. i would imagine resources are definitely stressed. what resources are you use to fight these fires now and do you have enough? every single firefighting resource in the texas forest service engaged in that or other fires across the state. all of our resources are committed in addition, we ve committed multiple municipal and other structural fire departments to assist the texas forest service and volunteer fire departments..@l through our mutual aid system, all the kings horses and all the kings men are responding to protect the citizens of texas. heather: information that people there in texas need to know, evacuations. what do they need to know to get out of harm s way? this is unprecedented fire
with now and have things gotten better? we are dealing with 63 new fires across the state as of last night. that s just the fires in the texas forest service alone has responded doesn t count for the volunteers responded across the state that burned over 32,000 acres yesterday, including 22 new large fires. by large, over 100 acres. which requires significant amount of resources to accomplish any suppression efforts. heather: just to clarify for our viewers. i had to take a second look. you said almost 32,000 acres burned and that was just on sunday alone? yes, ma am. year-to-date we ve burned 3.5 million acres and lost over 2890 homes that doesn t include the acreage burned
wildfires destroying more than 300 homes outside of austin, texas. fires say it is completely uncontained. it is one of dozens of wildfires burning across texas right now in one case the flames turned deadly, killing a 20-year-old mother and her young baby. fires battling the flames through bone dry conditions caused by the state s worst drought in 50 years. now winds from tropical storm lee or former tropical storm lee, making firefighters jobs more difficult. justice jones the lead information officer for the texas forest services joins us live on the phone right now. mr. jones, thanks for joining us. justice jones, are you there, can you hear me? yes, ma am, i m here. heather: thank you for taking time on a busy weekend for you. bring us up to speed. how many fires are you dealing