Helping out
Wed, 04/05/2017 - 5:00am
The devastation was beyond what they could have anticipated, making their efforts even more important.
A group from Creston, Lindsay and Humphrey have traveled to Texas to deliver hay bales to aide those hit hard by the wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Wildfires in Kansas were the largest in the state’s history, with more than 651,000 acres destroyed in total. Large overgrowth combined with a long stretch without rain plus high late-winter temperatures led to much of the terrain becoming a tinder box that quickly became uncontrollable.
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