All but about 100 acres of the 6,000-acre Bastrop State Park have been blackened by fire, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department says, and they’ve posted this video to show why.
With surprising alacrity, a fire creeps across the land, with nothing to stop it and wind to push it along.
And that is why you evacuate when you get the word.
This article appears in Sep 1-7, 2011.