Did Guthrie escape the fires?

Boxwood Studios wrote:
I'm going to retire soon, and I'm going home where I grew up, in
Guthrie. One of the things I want to do--besides teach (I'm a music
teacher)--is gardening. I remember how beautiful both sets of
grandparents' gardens were. I have been collecting seed catalogs for
this purpose.

Problem is, I can't figure out what growing zone Guthrie is in, whether
it's 7a or 6b, since there's a little bump in the chart, just above
Oklahoma City where Guthrie is. (In the Stokes catalog, for example.)

Anyone know about this?

Thanks,
Connie


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Did Guthrie escape the fires?

I think it did for the most part; I think there was a house on the
near edge of town that was burned down, unfortunately. Maybe more than
one? I don't know. But not the town proper. No one was killed -- not
humans anyway.

NEWS:

As Oklahoma firefighters extinguished embers near Guthrie, where dozens of homes were damaged by grass fires northeast of Oklahoma City, residents assessed the damage and counted their blessings.

http://newsok.com/article/1723231/?template=home/main
(won't let me copy and paste)

GUTHRIE, Okla. -- Passers-by were able to get an elderly couple out of
their home minutes before it was engulfed by flames from a grass fire.

Gary and Dama Maker were passing by Albert and Wilma Clayton's home in
Guthrie Sunday night when they noticed the couple were inside, there
was no car at the house and a grass fire was spreading across their
lawn.

Albert Clayton, 99, and Wilma Clayton, 87, did not want to leave.

"We told them they had to get out of the house quickly," Dama Maker
said. "It took a lot of convincing. If we had to pick them up and carry
them to the car, we would have."


After they got the couple into the yard, Gary Maker began spraying the
fire with a garden hose, which allowed Dama Maker to coax the Claytons
into the car. Then, a burst of embers from the fire ignited the fence
and, soon after, the house.

"We basically had to trick them to get them into the car and leave
their home," Dama Maker said.

The next morning, the Makers went back to find only charred remains.

Ken Smith, Wilma Clayton's son-in-law, said the couple shopped for some
new clothes on Monday and will eventually progress to house hunting.

"They got out of the house with their two walking canes," Smith said.
"That's all they got out with -- their two canes."

More on Guthrie fires:

http://www.newsok.com/article/1723834/