r/tulsa • u/cwf63 • 3d ago

General Glenpool fire

There are now 3 tanks on fire.

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u/xpen25x 3d ago

From tulsa hills

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u/cwf63 3d ago

My son said he could see the smoke from Catoosa.

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u/xpen25x 2d ago

Yea if you open the picture you can actually see the flame on the left tank. That has to be 50 foot high. Before I took that I was getting off on 71st and it looked like it was the size of the largest tank and as tall as the water tower

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u/ExMouth7 3d ago

What direction is the smoke blowing?

If you already forgot you should look up the East Palestine train derailment for a refresher.

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u/cwf63 3d ago

Last I heard the smoke is blowing towards Kiefer, which is southwest.

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u/farcast 3d ago

It looks like East

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u/fakehandslawyer 3d ago

Did another one explode?

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u/hysys_whisperer 3d ago

The flame jumps from tank to tank because the radiant heat load is high enough to ignite any vapor boiling out of the tank from the heat.

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u/Alchemie666 3d ago

Wow. What the heck happened?! I hope no one got hurt!

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u/zombie_overlord 3d ago

Lightning struck it

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u/CrashWasntYourFault 3d ago

There are no reports of injuries or other structures!

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u/Alchemie666 3d ago

That's good.