All I can say is this really sucks

Last month I posted on a vacation the family and some friends took at Possum Creek State Park about 70 miles west of Fort Worth. The fires over the last week have taken their toll....

Trees on a hill side

Firefighter Greg Simmons who fell in the lines..RIP Bro....

Damned...I hope the good Lord sees these people through....

POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff says a once-picturesque lakeside community will take years to recover since it's been ravaged by a massive wildfire.

Palo Pinto County Sheriff Ira Mercer says he doesn't know when residents will be allowed to return to the Possum Kingdom Lake area. That's where a fire started a week ago and has since destroyed about 160 of the community's 3,000 homes.

Firefighters made more progress Thursday in containing the blaze that's blackened nearly 150 square miles in three North Texas counties.

The blaze is one of several burning in the state, including two massive wildfires in West Texas.

In Possum Kingdom Lake, about 70 miles west of Fort Worth, some homes are now heaps of ashes while others were untouched by flames. Some fields are blackened.