Texas wildfire's new path helping firefighters

POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE, Texas - A wind-whipped wildfire that destroyed more than three dozen cliff-top homes in North Texas was expected to burn through most of the tinder-dry trees and shrubs in its path by daybreak Thursday, helping firefighters contain the late-summer blaze during the state's severe ...

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