"At least a dozen wildfires were burning across Oklahoma. In Texas, more than 20 fires sprang up, including a 22,400-acre blaze threatening 200 homes near Carbon, about 125 miles west of Dallas. [Update: three homes had been destroyed by evening]
Crews flying over the Texas communities of Ringgold, a town of about 100 people near Wichita Falls, and tiny Kokomo, near Eastland, reported both had essentially been wiped out by flames, officials said. ....
Carbon is just northeast of Cross Plains, where more than 90 homes and a church were destroyed in a raging grass fire last week.
"We just took up money for the folks in Cross Plains at church this morning, never thinking it would be us in just three hours," said Mallory Fagan ...
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Another news story said Ringgold only had 100 population. I can't believe that--thought it was a more thriving community. It used to be one of our stops on our frequent trips to "grandma's" in OK from SE TX.
A favorite part (because it was a break in the scenery) was the stretch from Bowie to Ringgold, where there were large fruit stands all along both sides of the road, which had grown to nice enclosed markets by the last time I drove through there.
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