Texas Wildfires

Vehicle traffic is seen coming out of a dust storm along State Road 152 near Texroy, Texas, Wednesday, March 15, 2006. Firefighters were forced to deal with the effect of increased winds on wildfires that persisted in the dry Texas Panhandle for a fourth day. The fires have swept over about 840,000 acres in the Panhandle and the South Plains, forcing the evacuation of several small towns.

Selena Bias, left, and her sister Tara Thomas, right, find a piece of jewelry that belongs to their mother as they sift through the remains of their fire-ruined home near McLean, Texas, Wednesday, March 15, 2006. The house and much of the property along with six vehicles were lost to wildfires that swept through the area on Sunday.

Burn injuries can been seen to the eyes, face , neck and mane of Sissy, a horse that belongs to Bennie Willams, as she stands in her coral near McLean, Texas, Wednesday, March 15, 2006. Williams lost six vehicles that belonged to her and members of her daughters family who lived in a second home on her ranch. That home was also lost to the wildfires that swept through the area.

Charred grass is seen for miles as a wildfire burning in the background blocks out the sun momentarily during the mid afternoon near McLean, Texas Tuesday March 14, 2006.

A firefighter is seen spraying down a smoldering wildfire on the side of a hill near McLean, Texas March 14, 2006. Fires that spread through the area Sunday were rekindled due to high winds in the region.

The remains of a burned vehicle is seen in Roberts County, Texas, Tuesday, March 14, 2006. The four occupants of the vehicle were discovered late Monday and are believed to have perished in wildfires that swept through the area on Sunday.

Vehicle traffic moves south on U.S. 70, north of Pampa, Texas, Monday, March 13, 2006, as smoke from a wildfire creates a smoke field over the road.

A Celanese Chemical Plant firefighter sprays water on smoldering and burning grass north of Pampa, Texas on U.S. 70, Monday, March 13, 2006. The plants fire department was aiding in extinguishing area wildfires.

Celanese Chemical Plant firefighters prepare to combat a fire line as burned grass smolders north of Pampa, Texas on U.S. 70, Monday, March 13, 2006. The chemical plant fire department was aiding in combating the area's grass fires.

A truck travels north on U.S. 70 north of Pampa, Texas, Monday, March 13, 2006, as fire and smoke line the road.

A wind-driven wildfire burns tall grass in the Texas Panhandle north of Pampa, Texas, Monday, March 13, 2006. The wildfires have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres.

A utility pole burns along a frontage road of Interstate 40, Monday, March 13, 2006, near McLean, Texas.

Jennifer Orand, right, and her husband Shannon Orand sift through the charred remains of their mobile home Monday, March 13, 2006, in Texroy, Texas, near where thousands of acres were scorched by wildfires.

Shannon Orand holds a mound of melted coins, in Texroy, Texas, Monday, March 13, 2006. Orand kept the loose change in a pickle jar in his home that was a total loss due to fire resulting from wildfires in the area.

Two dead cows, foreground, are seen along with thousands of burned acres of land following wildfires in the area West of Pampa, Texas, on State Road 152, Monday, March 13, 2006.

Conoco Phillips Borger Unit firefighters assisted several Texas Panhandle fire departments with a massive ranch fire that engulfed Skellytown, Texas, in a plume of smoke Sunday, March 12, 2006.

Randy Liles, back, and Matthew Ricks help keep the flames from spreading onto a man's property in Amarillo, Texas, Sunday, March 12, 2006. Ricks, whose brother-in-law is a firefighter, spent last weekend helping Potter County firefighters with the big grass fires by moving cattle and breaking down fences.

Gruver Volunteer Fire Department staffers were among the Texas Panhandle fire departments helping Sunday, March 12, 2006, in the ranch fire that covered Skellytown. Texas, in a shroud of smoke.

In this photo provided by the Borger Emergency Operations Center, flames from a wildfire leap into the sky in the Texas Panhandle near Borger, Texas, Sunday, March 12, 2006.

This photo provided by the Borger Emergency Operations Center shows the billowing smoke caused by a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle near Borger, Texas, Sunday, March 12, 2006. Using bulldozers and air tankers, firefighters struggled Monday to stop wind-blown wildfires that scorched more than 1,000 square miles of the drought-stricken Panhandle. About 1,900 people in seven counties were evacuated.