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Downed power lines blocked roads and debris was strewn across the ground in some areas, and in Tulsa County, about 100 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, lightning strikes set a house on fire.
Oklahoma City fire department crews work to extinguish a building fire in the 2400 block of NW 39th, Monday, March 11, 2024.
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The Babbs Switch fire on December 24, 1924, killed thirty-six people in a one-room school house at Babbs Switch, Oklahoma. Whole families died, and more than half the dead were children. [ 1 ] According to the National Fire Protection Association , it is the sixth-deadliest school fire on record in the United States.
The fire started five miles (8.0 km) west of the city along Highway 36 and westerly winds of up to 30 mph (48 km/h) spread the flames into town burning a total of 7,665 acres (31 km 2) of land. The fire spared the near-century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian books.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire was a record-breaking wildfire affecting the northeastern Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma that started on February 26, 2024. The fire affected numerous communities in Hemphill and Roberts counties, including the town of Canadian .
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