Hundreds flee Texas grass fires

WEARY fire crews kept up their fight yesterday to contain major grass fires across Texas that had burned dozens of homes and apparently destroyed a couple of tiny towns.

Other fires across the drought-stricken region have charred thousands of acres in Oklahoma and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate.

“We don’t know where we will be today,” Oklahoma City Fire Department Major Brian Stanaland said yesterday. “At this point, we consider the whole city a target for grass fires.”