Perry surveys Texas wildfire damage

Gov. Rick Perry got a first-hand look at a small North Texas community ravaged by a wildfire.

Friday, April 17th 2009, 5:00 pm

By: News 9

MONTAGUE, Texas (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry got a first-hand look at a small North Texas community ravaged by a wildfire.
   Perry was in the Montague (mahn-TAYG) County community of Stoneburg on Friday and walked around the charred remains of several homes. He called it the "most vicious fire that I have ever seen in my life."
   Local officials say the April 9 fire destroyed about 60,000 acres, 76 homes and killed three people in Montague County.
   Perry says since January more than 400,000 acres and 227 homes have burned across the state.