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Experts in Oklahoma provide a quick fire distribution due to wind and dry grass

The National Weather Service states that the forecast for quickly spreading fires was so cheap.

While it was already so dry and on Friday as windy as it will be, such conditions rarely appear after a drought if there is a lot of fuel for a fire.

Regardless of whether it is short, dry grass or forest and pasture after a drought, all of them are a danger if the conditions come together as on Friday.

“We do not see that these conditions come all too often, maybe every 10 or 15 years,” said Steve Cobb, meteorologist of the National Weather Service.

The forecast shows unusually strong winds in Oklahoma, especially in the western Oklahoma. This could make it more difficult to stop a fire across the open country, and Cobb believes that the wind could also be the reason why a fire begins.

“With such strong wind, it has the potential to bow or lower power lines and do things that you would not expect to initiate a fire,” he said.

In Broken Arrow, the fire brigade will have 10 additional firefighters and five brush cars in addition to the regular staff to answer. The department is concerned about areas, even in urban parts in which a house fire can spread to forests or a forest fire could blow into a neighborhood.

“We have a few residential areas in pasture areas and open grass areas, and it is even more difficult to advance if the fire goes into these areas tomorrow,” said Captain Willgett.

The NWS will charge a fire distribution rate of 225 to 440 feet per minute tomorrow.

“You start a fire in the grass, and you expect the wind to spread so many foot per minute, so quickly with the wind,” said Doggett. “It is extremely difficult to curb this type of spread rate.”

Firefighters are in the standby company for tomorrow, but you may not be able to work with the wind.

The weather service says that the wind begins in the morning and is being built all day, and the meteorologist does not believe that the danger will run by tomorrow evening.

The state forest service asks drone pilots to keep away from forest fires that begin because they could affect air and soil surgery.