Okla. Wildfire Jumps State Line to Fire.
Source Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Okla.
According to Washington County Emergency Management officials, the bulk of the smoke in and around Bartlesville Wednesday night was from a large fire in Kansas and western Oklahoma.
“The Emergency Management Facebook was blowing up last night. We got a lot of Facebook messages about the smoke,” WCEM representative Melissa Lindgren told the Examiner-Enterprise Thursday morning.
She said some of the smoke reported came from a somewhat local grass fire near Bar-Dew Lake but the majority was from Kansas.
“It was the Anderson Creek fire, which started in Woods County, Oklahoma, and moved into Kansas,” she said. “The reports are showing that it currently has burned 330 square miles or 212,000 acres unofficialy. That is where most of our smoke came from.”
Wind gusts reportedly up to 60 mph helped the fire to spread, she said.
Locally, the Bar-Dew lake area had been a recent problem with firefighters fighting blazes there off and on for the last few days.
“Our units were out there last night until a little after 1 a.m.” she said. “This fire wasn’t releated to the earlier ones though.”
In addition to Washington County Fire, Dewey, Copan and Osage Hills units responded to that fire with support from a Washington County road district crew.
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