All 44 residents of the Mannford Nursing Home were safely evacuated after a nearby wildfire threatened the facility.

A Mannford nursing home managed to evacuate all residents as a wildfire approached, with some staff making sacrifices to help the seniors get to safety.

A nursing home in Yates Center is evacuated due to a nearby grass fire Friday afternoon. The emergency management office tells us initially, the fire caused some smoke and water damage to Yates Center Health and Rehab on Fry Street near 105th Road.

The embers started coming and the smoke was so thick, you couldn’t see to the street, so I had to get out,” Mike Cavenah said outside his destroyed house. "We won’t rebuild."