Mannford Fire Survivor Rebuilding Home, Life - Two Years Later

Some families are still recovering - two years after Oklahoma's most devastating wildfire where hundreds of homes went up in flames.

The memories of smoke are still fresh for families here even though they've been replaced by the smell of new foam insulation.

One family's home is just about a month away from being move-in ready, but rebuilding their lives from the ground up is far from the hardest thing this family has had to endure.

The marks of the wildfire have faded. Replaced, finally, by signs of progress. It's been a long two years for Patricia King and her family which includes six children under 18.

"I'm just thankful that were getting close," said Patricia King, Mannford fire survivor. "It's definitely felt displaced, even though we're home."

It's where the Kings have called home since their old home of 22 years turned to ashes. Some of the family has been living in a shed-turned house, others in a camper - with their washer and dryer in another shed across the yard.

"Really cramped, really crowded, there's really no more room to put anything else, there's really not one more thing that could go in there," King said.

Patricia's husband, Richard, gave us a tour in December 2012, when reminders of life before the fire were everywhere.

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"Our computers were right here and we could see the lake down in there. Deer come up here in the back yard and we had birds out here," Richard said at the time.

It's a view that Richard never got to fully enjoy again. Exactly one year after the Kings lost their home, Patricia lost Richard to a heart attack.

"Losing him was far greater than anything we could have lost in the fire," Patricia King said.

Though she had to let go of so much, Patricia hangs on to the words her husband told us all those months ago.

"Fact is, we got a lot of faith, we don't let a lot bother us. We just take it as it is," Richard said in 2012.

As the castle the Kings dreamed of becomes reality, Patricia is counting down to the day she can wake up in the home she planned to share with her husband.

"I had a dream that we were standing in the east window and he walked up behind me and said, 'It's a nice view isn't it?' And I said 'Yeah it is.' And then I woke up," she said.

The King's home should be finished by the end of next month.

"I'm pretty much done with the pioneer spirit; I'm done, I want in," said Patricia King, Mannford fire survivor.

I spoke with Creek County deputies. They say Billy Cloud, who is charged with starting the fire with a lit cigarette has been hiding out ever since.

At this point, deputies say they have no idea where he is.