Harrah, Okla. - Cass Smith's friends dug through the rubble of his fire-ravaged home Saturday and were able to salvage a few valuables, including the rings he and his wife exchanged on their wedding day and another ring that belonged to his father.

"You don't realize how much nothing is until you have nothing," said Smith, a city council member in the Oklahoma City suburb of Harrah, where 30 homes were destroyed Friday by wind-driven wildfires.

A total of 49 homes were destroyed in Oklahoma, and eight others were gutted in separate fires in Texas.

Officials said no major fires continued to burn, although there were still some hotspots and smoky areas. Thousands of acres were charred in both states, but no major injuries were reported.

Unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds helped fuel Friday's fires. Thirty fires broke out in Oklahoma, with the worst damage occurring in the Oklahoma City suburbs of Harrah and Choctaw. Thirty-nine homes were lost there, while six were destroyed in Goldsby and four in the Shawnee area. Like much of the state, the burned areas have been in a prolonged drought.

Michelann Ooten, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said while firefighters continued to work in some hotspots Saturday, it was "nothing like what we were doing yesterday."

The Texas Forest Service said six homes were destroyed Friday in a fire south of Jacksboro, which is about 90 miles northwest of Dallas. But many other homes that were threatened, including as many as 200 northeast of Walnut Springs, have been saved.