Fire fighters in one part of Texas are reporting a strange phenomenon in their battle to control wildfires: ‘Ice capping’.

70 miles west of Fort Worth, embers from the fires have gone so high into the atmosphere that they’ve frozen and fallen back to the ground.  It’s an indicator of how hot the fires are, for embers to go that high.

The fires continue, out of control, homes burning.  One family, in the city of Austin, returned from a weekend trip to find their home, and their pet gone.  What makes it worse is they say their home was the only one on their street that burned: “All the other houses got saved except ours … we’re just kind of speechless right now.”-Kris Griffin