Winds spread fires across Oklahoma, ambulance involved in crash

Winds spread fires across Oklahoma, ambulance involved in crash

Winds spread fires across Oklahoma, ambulance involved in crash

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Strong southwest winds fueled wildfires across Oklahoma on Friday, with evacuations ordered in some areas

An ambulance from Newkirk, Oklahoma, south of the Kansas-Oklahoma line, was involved in a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 11 around 1:30 p.m.   Newkirk Fire Department officials said the ambulance was returning from the Blackwell hospital when the crash occurred during a dust storm.   Two medics and two other people were taken to a hospital with injuries.   Highway 11 in Kay County was closed because of limited visibility.

Around a thousand people were evacuated from a neighborhood in western Stillwater, Oklahoma as a fire spread toward the area.  Emergency officials reported some structures on fire, but no injuries were reported.  Fire destroyed a home in the town of Luther, and evacuations were ordered in at least 13 areas of Oklahoma.

[ photo:  Newkirk Fire Department/EMS ]

 

 

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