LUTHER, Okla. ( KFOR ) – Less than two days after multiple homes burned to the ground in Luther, a man walked through a wooded area northwest of town intentionally starting fires.
He wasn’t doing anything illegal, in fact, this was his job for the day.
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Cole Hix is a forest ranger and firefighter for the Oklahoma Forestry Department. He spent this calm, sunny afternoon doing his best to prevent another fire emergency in eastern Oklahoma County. He and his team were armed with the proper tools—a bulldozer and a forestry torch.
“So what we’re doing here is burning a backburn into the main part of the fire, which takes away the fuels so they can’t burn again,” said Hix…