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Oklahoma Wildfires

by Lance Kates ( 19 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at April 9th, 2009 - 4:20 pm

Oklahoma isn’t on the east or west coast, so I don’t expect the cable news stations to cover this:

Multiple wildfires in Oklahoma, spreading quickly. HIGH winds and dry air are setting the perfect condition.
Velma, Loco and Meridian Oklahoma evacuated. I-35 in Perry Oklahoma is closed. Sparks Oklahoma has been evacuated. Bradley OKlahoma is evacuated.

Citizens are asked to go to Midwest City Oklahoma for a shelter being set up to house them until the emergency passes.

Update 1:

Here is a link to a video feed.

Here is a map with some of the biggest fires.

Update 2:

Hennipen and Tatum Oklahoma have now been evacuated.   Wind Gusts up to 60+mph.  Up to 70mph in some areas.

Update 3:

I was hoping the fire would miss it, but the fire in Choctaw is now entering a cedar forest.  Cedar is more or less Nature’s Napalm.