Fires burning north of Amarillo have blackened more than half a million acres in the Texas panhandle. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd gets the latest from KERA reporter Brad Burt.
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