Emergency Officials track wildfires as power outages top 70,000

News 9's Matt McCabe is at the Emergency Operations Center, where officials are tracking fires and issuing evacuation orders.

Emergency officials say winds are too strong for air support to be used to fight the wildfires.

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The number of people without power in the state has surpassed 70,000.

McCabe reports that the Oklahoma Forestry Services (OFS) says its resources are stretched thin due to the number of fires statewide.

The OFS says a fire team from western Oklahoma is moving to central Oklahoma as conditions shift eastward.