Grass Fires Kill Five, Burn 128 Homes: ; Texas, Oklahoma Suffer with Worst Drought in 50 Years

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CROSS PLAINS, Texas - By the time the smoke cleared Wednesday, about 100 homes across wildfire-stricken Texas and Oklahoma lay in ruins and at least five people were dead, including two elderly women trapped in their homes by the flames.

The hardest-hit community during Tuesday's blazes was Cross Plains, a West Texas ranching and oil-and-gas town of 1,000 people 150 miles from Dallas. Cross Plains also lost about 50 homes and a church after the flames raced through grass dried out by the region's worst drought in 50 years.

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Grass Fires Kill Five, Burn 128 Homes: ; Texas, Oklahoma Suffer with Worst Drought in 50 Years

Two elderly women there were killed after being trapped in their homes, said Sparky Dean, a spokesman for the Department of Public...

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