BASTROP, Texas - Firefighters trying to control a wind-fueled wildfire that has destroyed nearly 600 homes in Central Texas were looking for a few overnight hours of diminished winds as thousands of evacuees spent the night away from their threatened homes.
There's been no significant rainfall over central Texas for a year, said CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds, and today the consequences of that are being seen in Bastrop and other areas.
Since December, wildfires have consumed 3.6 million acres of Texas - an area the size of the state of Connecticut.
Unfortunately, there is no rainfall in the forecast for the foreseeable future.
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