Take a first look at one of the homes destroyed by the wildfires blowing through the state.
The homes along Possum Kingdom Lake in the Gaines Bend neighborhood are destroyed. 33 homes were destroyed in that neighborhood overnight.
Homes along the perimeter of the lake have been hardest hit.
One of the first to assess the damage, while flying overhead Tuesday morning was the Palo Pinto County Sheriff Ira Mercer. He fought back tears as he described for News 8 the impact of seeing so much destruction.
"This event is one that is going to change the coarse of our county," said Mercer. "The magnitude of the disaster I can't describe."
He said this fire will mark time in the history of Palo Pinto County.
Mercer told News 8, despite the destruction, they found no one seriously injured. Mercer says most people readily evacuated when police and fire officials went knocking on doors yesterday.
The Texas Forest Service reported nearly 150,000 acres have now burned in that area since Friday. Since just Monday, the amount of damage doubled as four separate fires merged and became one.
"The prognoses is not good for this afternoon," Mercer said. "The humidity and the wind are going to be factors today and again we're just going to try and anticipate what we can do to keep anymore homes from burning down."
It is shaping up to be another worse-case scenario for the thousands of firefighters taking turns fighting the flames near Possum Kingdom Lake. Conditions remain dry, the humidity is low and temperatures are threatening to climb into the nineties.
All of those factors fan flames.
Across Texas, wildfires have burned at least 1.5 million acres of land.
