Dr. Reed Timmer is in Gage, Oklahoma, speaking with a man who is working alongside other crews trying to contain and fight the ongoing wildfire.
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00:00 Thursday, of course, we had rain and we had some sleet and snow and they kind of got a handle on everything.
00:05 And then, of course, yesterday when the wind got up so hard, it picked it back up.
00:11 So what they're doing today is now they're trying to do some back burning to get a control where in case it,
00:17 when the wind turns out of the north again, they've got a blackened area where the fire can't progress on.
00:23 You're filling up the trucks with water so that they can battle?
00:26 Yes.
00:26 Control the blaze?
00:27 We have one tanker here and we have one on the other side of the creek about a mile east of us here.
00:34 And we've been hauling water pretty much non-stop.
00:37 Right now, the gauges in command control of all this right here with the forestry.
00:41 And if they call me, I'll go back in and maybe get something to eat and reload.
00:45 But I've got plenty of water right now.
00:47 So I don't know about this evening.
00:50 It probably depends if the wind will lay down some and long as they're confident that they've got this under control.