BASTROP, Texas (AP) — 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.
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Children in Texas town return to school after destructive wildfire
September 12, 2011