Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Associated Press
MINERAL WELLS, Texas
A growing wildfire racing through parched fields and woods west of Fort Worth isn’t likely to make it far enough to threaten the heavily populated metropolitan area, a state forestry official said Tuesday.
The fire started Friday near Possum Kingdom Lake, 70 miles west of Fort Worth, and linked up with several smaller blazes. By Tuesday, it had burned nearly 150,000 acres, destroyed about 150 homes and a church in several communities and forced hundreds of residents to flee the area, Texas Forest Service spokesman Marq Webb said.