Snowfall on Easter Sunday might have done what hundreds of firefighters couldn’t do in the past week and that was extinguish a wildfire that started in northern Oklahoma and burned into Kansas, scorching more than 400,000 acres of land.
A spokeswomanwith the Kansas Forest Service expected the fire to be nearly extinguished near Medicine Lodge, a town that was nearly evacuated late last week as the wildfire threatened.
The Wichita Eagle reported that nearly three inches of snow was recorded in Wichita while the snowfall around Medicine Lodge was closer to at least a full inch of precipitation. Several homes were lost in the massive wildfire that started last Tuesday north of Alva. Ranchers say the only positive thing about the blaze was that it destroyed thousands of Red Cedars which rob pastures of water.
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