Texas Children Return to School After Wildfire: In the Blaze

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BASTROP, Texas - Paying attention in class may never have been so hard for children who started school Monday after the most- destructive wildfire in Texas history left hundreds of their families homeless and many with little more than the clothes on their backs.

Fed by howling winds whipped up by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, flames streaked across drought-stricken Texas, where more than 190 fires statewide have killed four people. The worst damage was in Bastrop, where two smaller fires joined to form a monster blaze that has destroyed more than 1,550 homes and charred more than 34,000 acres.

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Texas Children Return to School After Wildfire: In the Blaze

With firefighters still trying to contain the wildfire and power and water cut off to some areas, many in the Bastrop remain under evacuation orders. School buses stopped Mond...

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