How many SGP Red Dots burned away in Texas? Area equal to 50 Taipei gone!

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德州燒不停 已燒掉50個台北
民視 更新日期:"2011/09/06 21:01"

美國德州的森林野火在強風助長下、一發不可收拾，當局表示，從週日開始延燒的這波野火，已經累積到63處起火點，打火英雄根本忙不過來，總計去年11月以來，發生在德州的森林大火，已經燒毀了360萬英畝林地、相當於至少50個台北市。

烈火吞噬森林，觸目所及，紅通通一片，房屋的鐵皮被燒得扭曲、必必剝剝作響，聽得屋主心都碎了，住家距離火場不遠的民眾，每天心驚膽跳，怕的就是大火就這麼無聲無息地、燒到你家，想逃都來不及，救難直升機不斷從空中灑下防火劑，不過，效果似乎相當有限。

事實上，自去年11月開始，德州就飽受自1950年來最嚴重的乾旱之苦，天乾物燥，加上這幾天有熱帶風暴的風力助長，火勢四處蔓延。當局不得不下令，上千民眾撤離避難，而有意角逐共和黨提名參選總統的州長裴利，匆匆結束行程返回德州救災。

初步估計，災區已有500戶民宅被燒毀，而4號當天，一名20歲的媽媽和她一歲半的女兒，雙雙被燒死在活動房屋裡，這波大火自週日以來，已燒毀25000英畝地，而去年11月至今，德州被燒成焦土的範圍，更已經高達360萬英畝，農業損失上看50億美元，相當於新台幣1454億元。(民視新聞張永佳、翁如玫綜合報導)

 

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More than 1,000 homes burned in Texas wildfires
Smoke from a wildfire hangs in the sky, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in Bastrop, Texas.
WILDFIRES Smoke from a wildfire hangs in the sky, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in Bastrop, Texas.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS More than 1,000 homes have burned in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze close to Austin that’s still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday.

Speaking at a news conference near one of the fire-ravaged areas, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said more than 100,000 acres (40,469.5 hectares) have burned in the drought-stricken state.

Perry, who interrupted his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to rush home, said more than 1,000 houses have burned since Monday, but Texas emergency management chief Nim Kidd subsequently said that number of homes has actually been lost in the past week.

The Texas Forest Service says nearly 600 of the torched homes were in Bastrop County, some 25 miles (40 kilometres) from Austin. The agency said that blaze was still uncontained Tuesday.

Calmer winds Tuesday were expected to help in the battle against wildfires that flared up when strong winds fed by Tropical Storm Lee swept across Texas over Labor Day weekend.

Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Victoria Koenig said it was too early to say how much progress was made fighting the wildfire in Bastrop County overnight. The agency says the fire has grown to 30,000 acres. (12,141 hectarea)

“It’s encouraging we don’t have winds right now, not like yesterday,” Koenig said early Tuesday.

Even with the encouraging conditions, Koenig said it was a “tough, tough fire” that was raging through rugged terrain, including a ridge of hills.

“You can still see the hills glowing quite a bit,” she said.

At least 5,000 people were forced from their homes in Bastrop County, and about 400 were in emergency shelters, officials said Monday. School and school-related activities were cancelled Tuesday.

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Texas Wildfires Have Burned More than 100,000 Acres
Posted On: 9/6/2011
State officials say raging wildfires have burned more than 1,000 homes in at least 57 different wildfires in Texas over the past week.

Texas Governor Rick Perry spoke yesterday near the fires and said the fires have burned more than 100,000 acres.

Over the summer Texas suffered one of the worst droughts in state history.

The Texas Forest Service says that nearly 600 of the homes lost are in the Central Texas Fire which is still burning out of control.

Fire officials are working around the clock to gain control of the fires.

We will continue to bring you the latest updates in this story as they become available.