Missouri cautions about fireworks as blazes rage

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

BIXBY, Mo. -- Missouri residents were urged anew Monday to resist setting off fireworks in the wake of grass and timber fires raging throughout much of the rain-starved state and a suspicious fire that blackened hundreds of acres of a national forest.

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