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New York Times
18 Mar 2025
Livia Albeck-Ripka


NextImg:Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Farmhouse Among Properties Burned in Wildfires

The wildfires that tore through Oklahoma over the weekend, killing at least four people and destroying nearly 300 structures, also burned down the ranch of the state’s governor, Kevin Stitt, the governor said in a video posted to social media.

The video, posted on Saturday morning, shows Mr. Stitt, a Republican, standing amid blackened trees and rubble at what he describes as his farm. At a news conference that day, the governor said his farmhouse was north of the town of Luther, Okla.

“We knew it had burned down, but I just wanted to show it to you — we’ll be rebuilding with all of Oklahoma,” Mr. Stitt says in the video, panning the camera away from himself and toward the ground, which is covered in debris, broken bricks and ash. “This was my place,” he adds. “Total loss.”

The video then shows an area sunken into the earth with half-standing walls and a metal container, which the governor describes as his basement and gun safe. The chimney is still standing. “We’ll be rebuilding with the rest of Oklahoma,” Mr. Stitt says in the video. “You never think it’s going to happen to your place, and these wildfires just come out of nowhere, and can really take over,” he adds.


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