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March 8, 2012 - Lightning caused an oil tank battery fire in southwest Oklahoma City. [121] April 18, 2013 - A Lightning strike caused a tank battery fire in NE Oklahoma City. [122] December 17, 2014 – Coal County, 2 dead, 3 injured [123] [124] February 16, 2016 – One person was injured in an explosion, at a Pittsburg County oil field.
January 20 – The "Big Inch" gas pipeline exploded and burned, near Caldwell, Ohio, causing 500 foot high flames, and damaging farm buildings. There were no injuries. [1] March 13 – An overhead pipeline at a refinery in Martinez, California leaked, causing flammable fumes to spread onto a highway. An automobile ignited the fumes, killing a ...
In 1937, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol was created under Governor E. W. Marland.That same year the first 125 graduated from the Highway Patrol Academy. The new state troopers met resistance from Oklahoma motorists who were not used to living within the bounds of traffic regulations when none had ever before existed.
Deals on vehicles and jewelry through a U.S. government auction website were a steal in more ways than one: An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty to hacking a website to buy the items for $1 each ...
In August BP plc (NYSE: BP) announced that it would sell its Carson, California, refinery to Tesoro Corp. (NYSE: TSO) for $2.5 billion. The sale was part of BP's effort to shed $38 billion in assets.
Oklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunications System Division - The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (OLETS) is a statewide telecommunications network which serves city, county, state, federal, and military law enforcement and criminal justice agencies in Oklahoma. 800 megahertz is the DPS portion of OKWIN (800 MHz trunking ...
The McKee refinery tank explosion and fire on Sunday, July 29, 1956, was an explosion and severe fire-related mass casualty event, killing 19 firefighters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The fire is considered to have the fourth (the September 11 attacks being first) most casualties of fire fighters in the United States for a single fire event. [ 2 ]
The Omsk refinery processed more than 21 million metric tons (420,000 barrels per day) of crude oil in 2022. Russia's Omsk oil refinery reports fire, operating normally Skip to main content