Texas wildfires may have destroyed up to 500 structures

Wildfires may have destroyed as many as 500 structures in the Texas Panhandle, governor Greg Abbott says, describing how the largest blaze in state history scorched everything in its path.

Texas officials warned that the threat was not yet over. Higher temperatures and stronger winds forecast for Saturday elevated worries that fires in the Panhandle could spread beyond the more than 4,400 square kilometres already chewed up this week by fast-moving flames.