Major roads are shut and towns evacuated as two runaway barges threaten to crash through a bridge and a dam on the bloated Arkansas River in Oklahoma
Thought secured just hours earlier, two runaway barges broke loose Thursday on the Arkansas River, crashed into a dam in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and sank.
Police shut down major thoroughfares and ordered evacuations in the area after the barges came unmoored and threatened to crash through an Interstate 40 bridge and a dam on the bloated Arkansas River. But just after 5 a.m. Thursday, the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office said the barges were found several miles from Webbers Falls, one of the towns ordered to evacuate.
Watch house fall into river 00:45After the deluges, the fire department in Broken Arrow, southeast of Tulsa, posted videos of rescuers pulling people from floodwaters. One man was found clinging to a fencepost, and firefighters used a rope to take him a flotation device and pull him to safety, CNN affiliate KOKI reported.Police in Tulsa asked residents in neighborhoods near Keystone Dam to evacuate in case the area floods due to the planned release of water.
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