Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Wildfires have burned more than 300,000 acres in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, and more than a million people in the region were under a fire watch Friday.
No deaths were reported, but several structures have been damaged or destroyed in Oklahoma's Panhandle, where a 283,000-acre Ranger Road Fire was 20% contained as of Friday morning, KFOR reported. That fire spread into parts of southwestern Kansas.
The Stevens Fire, 12,428 acres, and the Side Road Fire, 3,680 acres, in Oklahoma's Texas County were 60% and 75% contained, respectively as of Friday morning.
The Poor Farm Fire in Latimer County was 10% contained after burning some 9,000 acres.
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