Crews Battle Destructive Wildfires in East Texas

LUFKIN (AP) � West and Central Texas have not been alone in enduring destructive wildfires. At least one home has been destroyed in wildfires dotting the Piney Woods of East Texas. A statement from the Texas Forest Service says the one home destroyed was in a seven-acre fire in Nacogdoches County that threatened 20 to 30 homes in a pine plantation before firefighters tamed it. About 100 miles north of Houston, Trinity County saw a pair of forest fires with flames moving from treetop to treetop. No structures were reported damaged, but fires in Hardin and Tyler counties between Beaumont and Lufkin threatened almost 50 homes before the flames were tamed.