Pictures of the Week: December 24 – 30, 2005

Wildfire Destruction
Brian Huffman gets a hug from his friend Pippa Metcalf as they stand behind his home after it was completely destroyed in a fire in Mustang, Oklahoma. Wind-driven grass fires have destroyed nearly 20,000 acres in eastern Texas and Oklahoma, destroyed more than 100 homes and killing five people. Huffman has lived on that block for most of his life, and lost nearly everything he owned in the fire