Texas Panhandle ranchers face losses and grim task of removing dead cattle killed by wildfires

First, the flames came storming across the vistas of the Texas Panhandle, burning through the grassy plains and scrub land of the region's cattle ranches.

By Friday, ranchers faced a grim task: Search miles of scorched earth to dispose of the burned corpses of cattle. Others too badly burned and injured in this week's historic wildfires to survive will be euthanized.

"We’re picking up deads today,” X-Cross-X Ranch