Stitt acknowledges Oklahoma Forestry deployed resources for wildfires, sets up task force to question methods

In a statement sent to reporters Tuesday, the governor accused the agency of obfuscation. He did seem to tacitly acknowledge that numbers his office turned over the day before were incorrect by virtue of providing different numbers in Tuesday’s statement.

Oklahoma’s Forestry Services did, in fact, deploy its resources during the March 14 fire event. But Stitt says forestry officials did not deploy them correctly.

He points to a map that shows where firefighting assets were deployed during the statewide spate of fires that claimed four lives, scorched more than 100,000 acres and destroyed more than 500 homes, including one owned by the governor…

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