Ashland in Kansas is being evacuated after a wildfire rapidly spread after starting in Beaver County, Oklahoma and prompting evacuation in Englewood, Kansas.

So far, nearly 300,000 acres of land have been burned in the Ranger Road Fire. Across the plains of rural southwest Kansas, thousands of heads of cattle graze.

As flames and heavy smoke moved closer to Ashland, one small business owner was forced to abandon her dream home and storefront.