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Massive Oklahoma Panhandle gas fire under investigation
Chris Stoppel could see the fire near the Oklahoma-Texas border from Sublette, Kansas, more than 80 miles to the northwest.
“I was just getting home from town,” Stoppel said. “I’d been in town and was pulling in our driveway and I could see it glow.”
Stoppel, an alfalfa, wheat and milo farmer, said once his son saw the light in the distance, they climbed onto the back of his truck for a better view. Stoppel said this is not the only gas fire he has seen.
The fire in rural Beaver County started Tuesday night and was extinguished on Wednesday morning. Local fire departments worked to stifle the blaze, and Phillips 66 said in a statement the company shut off the affected portion of the pipeline.
Trey Davis, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, said DCP Midstream owns and operates the pipe. This past year, Phillips 66 acquired DCP Midstream.
“This turns out to have been what is called a dead leg pipe,” Davis said.
A dead leg pipe is a smaller, inactive offshoot of the larger main pipeline. He said these situations do happen, but not usually to this degree.
“You know, very fortunate that this is in a very rural area. No structures around it,” Davis said. “We are checking to make sure that there was no damage to the main pipeline that this dead leg was attached to, just to make sure there may not be some additional problems still.”
A U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration spokesperson said it is aware of the incident involving the gas gathering pipeline, and is investigating the cause with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Oklahoma Christian University is honoring victims of the Oklahoma City bombing with a special display on campus.
They installed 168 Oklahoma flags at the campus entrance.
Organizers say it is to mark the 31st anniversary of the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City and to remember each life lost.
The annual ‘Field of Flags’ tradition transforms the campus.
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The display remains up through April 19, 2026.
OU fans hoping to make it to either diamond on Friday will need to get there earlier than expected.
Oklahoma announced on Thursday that its baseball and softball series openers will each begin at 5:30 p.m on Friday.
Game 1 of the No. 14 Sooners’ baseball series against Missouri was scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., while the No. 1 softball team’s series opener against No. 8 Arkansas was slated for 7 p.m.
In a pair of releases on OU’s athletic website, the reason given for both time changes was “forecasted inclement weather.” According to the National Weather Service, severe weather is supposed to arrive in Norman and its surrounding areas around 8 p.m.
OU’s other baseball games against the Tigers on Saturday and Sunday will remain at their scheduled times (4 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively). The softball games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday will remain at 7 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.
The baseball team’s three-game duel with Mizzou will be OU’s third home series of SEC play. Oklahoma opened conference play by taking two games of three against Texas A&M before dropping two of three to Alabama a few weeks later.
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OU has already played three SEC road series. The Sooners won two games of three at LSU in March before getting swept at Texas a week later. Most recently — last week — Oklahoma won two games against Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Oklahoma (24-12 overall, 7-8 SEC) sits in a five-way tie for ninth place in the SEC standings alongside Mississippi State, Kentucky, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
Missouri, on the other hand, has played its way out of contention.
The Tigers come to Norman 20-17 and 3-12. They earned a road series win against Kentucky two weeks ago, but they followed that up with three losses in a row to fellow conference bottom feeder South Carolina last week. Mizzou has been swept three times — by Auburn, Texas A&M and the Gamecocks — since the start of SEC play.
On the softball side, Oklahoma is ranked No. 1 after taking two games of three against former top-ranked squad Texas. The Sooners, though, dropped their third game in Austin before falling to unranked Oklahoma State at Devon Park in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.
The Sooners are 40-5 overall and 13-2 in conference play. OU currently sits atop the SEC standings, one game ahead of second-place Alabama.
Arkansas comes into the series at Love’s Field on a heater. The Razorbacks (35-6, 10-5) have won six of their last seven contests. Their only series loss of conference play this year came against Alabama, which is ranked No. 3.
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TULSA, Okla. (KOKH) — One person has been arrested after allegedly trying to sell stolen property on Facebook.
On April 10, an officer with the Tulsa Police Department saw a post on Facebook Marketplace for a projector lens that was stolen from the condemned Promenade Mall.
The lens, which is worth $20,000, was listed for just $500.
The officer used a fake Facebook account to message the seller and arranged a trade for the lens in exchange for a minibike.
Earlier this week, 19-year-old Zachery Scrivner met with the officer and was arrested.
According to the police department, Scrivner said he knew the lens was stolen but decided to try to sell it anyway.
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He was arrested on a complaint of knowingly concealing stolen property.
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