Hundreds stranded on Texas highways are rescued December 25, 2009 20:30 EST WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) -- Volunteer firefighters and sheriff's deputies have been rescuing hundreds of people stranded along an interstate and a state highway near Wichita Falls, Texas. The area has received more than a foot of snow.
Just two of the sheriff's department's vehicles have four-wheel drive, so rescuers used their own pickups and the heavy five-ton brush trucks that are normally used to fight fires.
Many of the motorists who had to be rescued had run out of gas while they were stuck in traffic that was stalled by the storm.
Even residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth area saw a white Christmas today -- their first in more than 80 years.
But by late afternoon, the 3 inches of snow that had been measured at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport yesterday had melted.
