ignited this one but they do know there is plenty of fuel to keep it going. >> this happened so quickly. and i was thinking, not again. >> reporter: while clearly the wind is gusting here, fire crews have been able to get up in the air to battle the blaze from there, including with a massive dc-10 tanker flown in from california. the problem is once the sun goes down, those planes are grounded. ryan owens, abc news, palo pinto county, texas. >> of course the fires aren't just in the north. there's also some down towards huntsville. >> that part of texas is getting hit hard. oklahoma city getting hit hard as well. these are the worst fires in texas since the 1950s. decades since we've seen it quite this bad. good luck to those folks. crews are battling destructive wildfires in oklahoma as well. hundreds of homes are threatened in oklahoma city by a fire that's already destroyed more than 20 homes. and the fire chief there says he's worried that the hot and windy weather could reignite those lingering hot spots. and the number of people killed from irene now stands at