The Morning Brew: Wildfire rages in northwestern Oklahoma
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wildfire rages in western oklahoma
A wildfire continues to burn out of control across hundreds of acres in northwestern Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas.
On Wednesday morning, fire departments in Oklahoma County organized and sent a task force to northwest Oklahoma to help battle the blaze.
It's not yet clear what sparked the wildfires.
But Bill Bunting, forecast operations chief at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, said human activity causes most wildfires in the prairie — a cigarette thrown from a car or sometimes a spark from a catalytic converter. Bunting said lightning accounts for 25 percent of wildfires.
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Silas Allen is a news reporter for The Oklahoman. He is a Missouri native and a 2008 graduate of the University of Missouri. Read more ›