The Kentucky Division of Forestry (KDF) has dispatched a dozen firefighters to assist the state of Oklahoma, where fires have burned nearly 900,000 acres in the northwest part of Oklahoma. The firefighters, who departed from Kentucky Friday, included one public information officer, one task force leader, two dozer bosses, three engine bosses, three engine operators and two firefighter type IIs.
The Division of Forestry also sent three Type-6 Wildland Fire Engines and two JD-650 dozers with plows to assist Oklahoma’s fire efforts as part of the Southern Wildland Fire Compact.