Wildfires leave one dead, dozens homeless in Oklahoma

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

MANNFORD, Okla. -- The fields around Connie Laxton's home in Oklahoma were black with ash Monday after a roaring wildfire tore across her property and ran right up to her gray brick ranch home -- where it suddenly stopped.

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