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Witness: Texas Wildfire 'Just Like Driving Into a Volcano'

Season 2011 Episode 2500 | 7m 51s

In Texas, Bastrop County's emergency coordinator said that a huge wildfire southeast of Austin is now 30 percent contained. Ray Suarez speaks with Kate Galbraith of the Texas Tribune about efforts to combat scores of fires, which have destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed at least four people in the Lone Star State.

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