Missouri cautions about fireworks as blazes rage

Monday, July 2, 2012 | 4:34 p.m. CDT; updated 6:28 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 2, 2012

BIXBY — Missouri residents were urged anew Monday to resist setting off fireworks in the wake of grass and timber fires raging throughout much of the rain-starved state and a suspicious fire that blackened hundreds of acres of a national forest.

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