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'It was chaos:' Fires erupt across Oklahoma during extreme winds
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3/15/2025
Storm chaser Mike Scantlin reported live from Mannford, Oklahoma, on the evening of March 14, as multiple dangerous fires burned throughout the state.
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Multiple fires have already broken out across several states including Texas and Oklahoma and for a closer look at the dangerous situation
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We're joined now by storm chaser Mike Scanlon
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He's been covering this fire west of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he joins us right now from Manford, which is just outside of Tulsa
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Yeah, that's right Damien, you know this area pretty well
00:23
No, unfortunately this area was ravaged by wildfires in 2012
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And I believe they had another round of wildfires here near or in town in the early 2000
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So the way that this area is sandwiched in the woods up against Keystone Lake
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They're just an unfortunate position for when we get these really strong dry
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low humidity wind events around the southwest early spring systems, but
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Earlier I was back here in this neighborhood. This video is incredible because
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back here in this neighborhood
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As the fire approached town, there are multiple structures on fire here now further west
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probably ten or so
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Homes or businesses burned to the ground hours ago as the fire crossed Oklahoma 48 south of town
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And now the fire is in town, you know the last live shot
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I wasn't really sure where the fire was but you know, the smoke tells you that it's pretty close to town or it's in town
01:12
Well, you know
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I went back in this neighborhood whenever everybody was getting out of town and the fire is is absolutely in the neighborhoods on the south
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On Greenbrier Avenue here, so
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multiple fire crews back here
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I got out of there when I saw the Oklahoma Highway Patrol going door-to-door making sure everyone's out of here right before that
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I came up on the nursing home
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Just it was chaos I pulled in and made sure that everyone got out of there
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They had loaded up a bus and gotten everyone out
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So they were they had all the people out and they were just grabbing stuff
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So they didn't need any help with that
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But that was kind of a harrowing situation thinking that we have a nursing home
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in the path of this thing and pretty much all the businesses along 51 have evacuated and
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You know the neighborhoods on the south side of 51
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The neighborhood and now it's just
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Watching it wait and wait and to see where it ends up and you know, it's really close
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You can see the smoke starting to get darker here
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Strong southerly is the southwest at least probably 45 to 50 at this point. No stronger gusts
02:27
Mike has there been a time where the wind has subsided at all or is it just been blowing all day?
02:35
You know, it hasn't been
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Sustained as as much as it was earlier and that first branch came through
02:42
It's been kind of hit or miss but whenever it's gusting it's like a sustained gust
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It'll be probably five minutes of intense winds and then a couple minutes
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It'll die down and then you'll get another blast coming through
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But I also just kind of wanted to pull up the infrared satellite just to show you how many fires we have
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across northeast, Oklahoma
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So big fire about 30 miles west of here in Stillwater west of Stillwater
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That's where Oklahoma State University is and then further south down towards
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Perkins and Carney areas also a big fire down there and then about 10 miles north of here
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There's another fire crossing the same Highway 48 here south of Cleveland. So, you know, there's just too many fires not enough
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Crews to really keep them under control. So and it's gonna be like this all night
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We're gonna have this problem tonight overnight and into tomorrow as these winds just will not die down
03:27
Very low humidity extreme fire weather ongoing here in Manfred, Oklahoma
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All right storm tracker Mike Scanlon joining us right now from Manfred, Oklahoma Mike. Thank you so much for that update and stay safe out there
03:41
And David you said you've been to that community. You're familiar with the area here and well
03:46
Just a horrible situation there with home after home burned and destroyed today. Yeah, and he was talking about multiple
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Fires going ongoing there across parts of Oklahoma one of the cities that he mentioned was Stillwater
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Which is one of the largest cities there in Oklahoma, obviously Tulsa is the second largest city behind the state capital of Oklahoma City
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But yeah, this is gonna be an ongoing devastating
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Event here as we head throughout this afternoon and this evening, but also as we head into tonight tracking the risk of severe weather
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