GREEN COUNTRY, Okla. — Several areas were encouraged to evacuate Tuesday afternoon due to the spread of wildfires.
Residents in Osage and Payne counties were asked to evacuate after high winds and dry conditions caused wildfires to threaten homes.
Osage County Emergency Management said fifty homes were evacuated.
Osage County officials said the Bureau of Indian Affairs helped fight the fire with two planes, surveying and dropping fire retardants.
The Tulsa Fire Department said it was called on to help fight the fires in Pawhuska with a grass rig.
In Payne County, an Emergency Activation Alert was sent to people, telling them to leave the areas east of Cushing and southeast of Yale.
"It’s god awful, I’ve never seen anything like it in my life," Jaden Folden said after watching the fire rage by his neighborhood.
Authorities told 2 News that no structures were damaged as of 7:30 p.m., and no one was injured.
Fires also advanced across Creek and Okmulgee counties.
In Creek County, flames made their way to private land in Oilton, just east of town.
If the fire spreads past the treeline there, Oilton’s police chief told 2 News he would make the call to evacuate the town.
In Okmulgee County, another wildfire broke out near Henryetta, scorching roughly 50 acres.
After an hour and a half, firefighters managed to quench the flames.
Today's wildfire was one of more than a dozen they've battled in the last week.
2 News crews are on the scene as crews work to control the fire:
The danger of fire is high right now due to high winds and drought; several Green Country counties are under burn bans.
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