On Saturday, July 9th an explosion at the ONEOK gas plant in Medford Oklahoma led to an evacuation order being issued. Several regional fire departments responded to the fire and at 6:05 pm Saturday evening, Enid/Garfield County Emergency Management announced that they had the fire mostly under control.
No injuries were reported due to the fire. Originally Grant County evacuation order was for a 2-mile radius out from the site of the fire. The order was later reduced to a 1-mile radius from the fire, and Highway 81 from Pond Creek to Medford was closed.
ONEOK offered to put up displaced Medford residents in hotels for Saturday night.