The company's division near Bethel, New York has made tankers and pumpers that ship around the world.

Now the company has decided to be the first full-time tenant of the Sterling Business and Technology Park outside Hamlin.

Employees at Sutphen East are always busy filling new orders for fire tankers and pumpers. The company has been in Sullivan County, New York since 1989 but has outgrown its location and is moving to Wayne County by the end of the year.

"Nice that they're coming and the business is moving to grow bigger," said Rich Rollison of Honesdale.

The move to the Hamlin area is convenient for employees who live in Pennsylvania including Rollison. His drive time will drop by 45 minutes one-way. Not only that, but Sutphen will be very close to Interstate 84 as well as Scranton and the Poconos, a big difference from seasonal upstate New York.

"Sometimes when we're dealing with a half million dollar fire truck entertaining these customers is very important," said Sutphen head engineer Steven Dorfman.

Not to mention it will be in a business park that was looking for its first official tenant following nearly a decade and millions of dollars in investments. Sutphen will now move into a building at Sterling Business and Technology Park for a fraction of what it cost to develop it with money from the state.

 An unknown number of structures have been destroyed, but no injuries or deaths have been reported. One firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion.

More than 200 firefighters were battling the fire, according to Oklahoma Forestry Services. OFS' incident management team worked in unified command with Woodward Fire Department to fight the fire, firefighting task forces, heavy equipment and large air tankers.

High winds and low humidity hampered firefighters throughout the day Wednesday.

The 350 Complex fire started Tuesday by power lines downed and arced by winds that were sustained at 30 mph, with gusts more than 50 mph. 

Wednesday afternoon, officials lifted voluntary evacuation orders, The Associated Press reported. Woodward County Emergency Management Director Matt Lehenbauer said regional orders to evacuate about 100 square miles of Woodward County were allowed to expire Tuesday night, according to The AP.

n the past decade, it has made about 1,850 flights while working on about 400 fires from Nebraska to the west coast. The company even made missions to Canada and Australia.

"We think we can bring a better tool to the effort, because we boil it down to four words: More, sooner, safer, cheaper," President and Chief Executive Officer Rick Hatton said. "More because we carry more, sooner because we have jet speed to and from, safer because the less flying you do to get the job done the safer you are and, last but not least, cheaper because there are those economies of scale."

10 Tanker has a fleet of three DC-10 planes, which Hatton said fly four times faster than most firefighting planes, and the tanks carry nearly 12,000 gallons of fire retardant.

Hatton said Laguna Pueblo is a perfect place to practice and for the pilots to work on their annual certification because of wide open spaces with vegetation and terrain and varying elevation. He said it's very similar to areas they'll encounter while facing fires this spring and summer. It's also just 20 miles from Albuquerque.

The company is receiving interest from pilots and firefighters in South America. A pilot from Buenos Aires, Ezequiel Sicardi, flew to Albuquerque this week to learn more about the approach after recent large fires in the Andes Mountains.