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After the fire, recovery begins
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I know the feeling of watching the sky turn black, the acrid smell, seeing the smoke blanket the landscape and wondering why?Those farmers and ranchers who continue to pick up the pieces of their broken lives know this feeling. They lived to tell about the wildfires that exploded March 6, and swept through an estimated 1.5 million acres in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. For them the recovery has just begun.“A lot of people say it looks like Mars — desolate,” according to veteran farmer/stockman Jim Harden, Clark County.