On fire aid, Oklahoma faces waiting game

 
BY JOHNNY JOHNSON | Modified: April 15, 2009 at 4:50 am | Published: April 15, 2009   


photo - Sisters Sara, 3, and Cheyann Ford, 5, play Tuesday on a wooden swing set that escaped last week’s flames. The girls were visiting their grandmother, who lives next door to the burned house in the background. FEMA officials toured neighborhoods devastated in Thursday’s wildfires. PHOTO BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN
Sisters Sara, 3, and Cheyann Ford, 5, play Tuesday on a wooden swing set that escaped last week’s flames. The girls were visiting their grandmother, who lives next door to the burned house in the background. FEMA officials toured neighborhoods devastated in Thursday’s wildfires. PHOTO BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

MIDWEST CITY — All 12 houses that burned last week in Midwest City were insured, so federal wildfire aid to individual homeowners likely will hinge on uninsured damages in other areas, state and federal officials said Tuesday.

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