In a video posted to social media, Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma said he had experienced the “total loss” of his farmhouse over the weekend.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s ranch home was among those destroyed in Friday night’s fires, according to the governor’s social media account. Stitt signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency in counties across Oklahoma,

Almost 300 houses and structures were destroyed by the wildfires that burned across the state on Friday and sent some Oklahomans fleeing with only the clothes on their backs, Gov. Kevin Stitt said. Communities in both rural and urban areas across the state were hit,