Dallas (cnn) - once feared one of the worst days in the history of the State for the fight against forest fires firefighters of Texas has the upper hand on several Sunday to size a place while others have remained beyond their control.
Six fires again reported Sunday, in the counties of different, were relatively small and quickly brought under control, the Texas Forest Service said in a statement.
The most damage - a vacant mobile home, trailer mounted and another building - occurred over 1 acre in the County of Newton, but as the fire is controlled.
Eleven structures were threatened and a camper has lost more than 129 acres in Angelina County, the Agency added State.
Still, despite the success of dispelling these flames, authorities are struggling to manage other, significantly more roughly to size a place. This challenge, and the weather forecast, had led the Forest Service said that "conditions Sunday could shape up to be among the worst in the history of Texas."
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The largest fire not yet under control continues Sunday in 71 000 acres in Stonewall, Knox, and King counties. Air resources, bulldozers, fire engines and other tools and staff have been used in that fight forest Service, said.
Another of the most difficult slogs can be in the County of Presidio, where none of the 60 000 acres at risk was considered to be contained Sunday. The Forest Service has deployed three tankers air, 60 firefighters, bulldozers and other equipment and staff, and a host of other resources to State and local, focused on the blaze.
Already, 30 to 40 houses in Fort Davis was lost due to this fire, according to the Forest Service.
Another 34 homes were burned in Midland County, due to fire the State Agency Sunday described as "very active" and any content. A Red Cross shelter was created to the Midland College for the displaced or otherwise affected by this fire.
There were no evacuations still not related to an another 60,000 acres blaze, Potter and Moore counties near the city of Masterson. That fire is 50% contained and is still considered a threat to the towns of Dumas and Sunray.
Texas is not only, as wildfires is combustion in large areas of the Southwest and Midwest, fuelled in part by the dry, hot and windy.
The National Weather Service has issued "red flag warnings" through Sunday evening - indicative of what he calls "weather conditions fire critic" - in New-Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin Sunday extended a State of emergency for seven counties. The designation allows the agencies of the State to the purchase of emergency needed to rapidly provide resources to local governments, said the State emergency operations center. The National Weather Service posted warnings of fire for the Western two-thirds of the State.
On Saturday, a fire of grass just combustion South of Cleveland, Oklahoma, has prompted evacuations.
Up to 70 firefighters were involved in the response, and three helicopters, said Terry Dennis, a spokesman with the firefighters in Cleveland. Twelve families checked into a Red Cross shelter, but more have been evacuated, he said.
Dennis said Saturday that no there was no report of injuries.
In Texas, the fear is that relentless heavy winds dry weather could spawn a rash of wildfires similar to those that swept the Southern Plains States, April 9, 2009. These fires scorched 147,924 acres, destroyed 111 homes and killed four people, the Texas Forest Service said on its Web site.CNN Mariano Castillo and Kara Devlin contributed to this report
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