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Kansas Forest Service estimates that more than 400,000 acres across state were affected, primarily from blazes northeast of Hays.
There's almost nothing left of Deb Maupin's home near Paradise in north-central Kansas — a bench on the front porch with nothing behind it but the concrete of the basement, now full of ash, scorched appliances where the kitchen was.
Wildfires ripped through north-central Kansas near Hays last week killing one man and burning more than a dozen homes and numerous cattle.