“Nobody has enough resources to combat fires when the wind blows 70 miles per hour,” said Essary. “It is an insurmountable task.”
Stinwater, Okla. – When Oklahomans rated the devastation of forest fires, which whipped or destroyed hundreds of houses throughout the state, warned civil servants in Oklahoma and Texas on Sunday of an increased risk of a fire risk in the coming week.
“We will be back to a critical area,” said Keith Merckx, spokesman for Oklahoma Forestry Services, on Sunday.
Forest fires that are powered by strong winds on Friday. The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management said on Sunday evening that over 400 houses were damaged by nationwide officials, said on Sunday that at least four people died of the storm in Oklahoma.
Jeremy Cook was among the inhabitants in Stillwater, a city with about 50,000 km northeast of 100 kilometers northeast of Oklahoma City, who returned home on Saturday morning to determine that his house was gone. Cook told The Oklahoman when his family fled on Friday, they invited three cars with photos, pets, books and paintings.
After returning to find his home for the foundation, he said that he would go back and forth “between laughter and crying”.
At least 74 houses in and around still water were destroyed by forest fires, Mayor Will Joyce said on Facebook on Sunday evening. Fire chief Terry Essary said at a press conference on Saturday that the fires spread quickly and that the crews were difficult due to the strong winds and low humidity. He said they were quickly overwhelmed.
“Nobody has enough resources to combat fires when the wind blows 70 miles per hour,” said Essary. “It is an insurmountable task.”
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management announced on Sunday evening that the Chief Medical Examiner office had confirmed four deaths in connection with the fires or strong winds throughout the state. There was death in the counties Lincoln, Garfield, Haskell and Pawnee.
Details on the deaths in the counties Haskell and Pawnee have not been given. Keli Cain, spokesman for Oklahoma's emergency management, said that the person in Garfield County was killed in a vehicle accident due to poor visibility due to dust or smoke and a man died in Lincoln County.
Deborah Ferguson said news 9 that her husband was killed in all Ferguson in Lincoln County. She said that her husband and 15-year-old son had fought for a running fire in a pasture on Friday and when they fled a four-wheeler, it fell into a tree in the middle of a strong smoke. She said her son was poorly burned and hospitalized.
Erin O'Connor, a spokesman for the Texas A&M Forest Service, said the region on Friday had the “perfect recipe for forest fires” with strong winds, dry conditions and over normal temperatures. She said that less wind helped the crews on Sunday to get the fires under control, but that more fire activities were expected in the coming week.
One of the largest fires in Texas had currently burned 36 square kilometers near Fredericksburg, west of Austin, but was included 40% until Sunday.
The winds that swept in Texas and Oklahoma were so strong that they turned several saddle. The authorities said that three people were killed during car accidents during a dust tower that was caused in the Panhandle in Texas on Friday.
After moving the damage in Stillwater and Mannford, a city of about 3,000 km around 32 kilometers west of Tulsa on Saturday, the Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt interviewed the damage on his ranch outside of Oklahoma City, where his house was burned there.
“We will rebuild the rest of Oklahoma,” said Stitt in a video posted on X.