Official: Texas wildfire had destroyed 39 homes

POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE, Texas (AP) — Residents of a subdivision in a parched North Texas wilderness area didn't hesitate when ordered to flee an advancing wildfire, and dozens who were hemmed in by flames blocking the road out escaped by boat without a single major injury, authorities said Wednesday.

The wildfire that swept through the Possum Kingdom Lake area on Tuesday — one of several burning in Texas and Oklahoma — destroyed at least 39 homes and turned the normally lush landscape into a blackened mess.

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