OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – It was a drive with a present. Panic ensued as fireworks went off in a pickup mattress alongside an Oklahoma Metropolis roadway.
The incident was caught on digital camera and goes viral on social media.
On the Fourth of July, a drive alongside Hwy 74 close to N.W. a hundred and fiftieth become a fireworks present.
Within the video, which has gained lots of of 1000’s of views on TikTok, firecrackers mild up the sky as an enormous hearth engulfs the mattress of the truck.
One commenter stated, “It is the Ford F-150 Freedom Version.”
It was a tense scenario within the busy visitors.
The couple who took the video checked on the person afterward. He informed them that he was OK, simply having fun with the present.
“If there is a automobile on hearth on the facet of the freeway, we’ll go,” stated Oklahoma Metropolis Hearth Batt. Chief Benny Fulkerson. “It is not one thing we see day-after-day with a automobile on hearth as a result of fireworks have been saved in it, however that may definitely occur and when it occurs, it may be catastrophic.”
Fulkerson says he hopes this does not occur once more but when it does, he hopes somebody will name 911 as a result of firefighters are prepared to assist.
“They’re simply harmful and unpredictable and once you get an entire lot of them in a concentrated space, it will get actually harmful,” he stated.
Though fireworks are unlawful in Oklahoma Metropolis, firefighters responded to a number of fires over the vacation and the times that adopted, together with two home fires and 21 dumpster fires attributable to improperly discarded fireworks.
You could be fined as much as $1,500 in case you break the town ordinance.
