Englewood, a town of about 80 people in Clark County, happened to receive the brunt of the worst fire to ever hit Kansas.

Under the threat of wildfires, they decided to head for Protection, the town east of Ashland. It looked clear that way. What they didn't know was that they were heading toward more danger.<

One Kansas man says the recent wildfires may be the biggest natural disaster to hit his ranching family in 132 years. The devastation to the land and livestock from the fires was "literally worse than I ever could have imagined," said Greg Gardiner, whose family homesteaded Clark County more than 132 years ago. "They never stood a chance in a lot of these pastures."

Wildfires aren' that unusual, according to Bill Barby, 63, who has spent his whole life working on his 3,700-acre ranch that spreads across Clark and Comanche counties.