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Due to increased containment and
the complexity of the fire, Oklahoma Forestry Services and the Lone Star State
Incident Management Team will be transitioning the fire back to the local
jurisdiction. The Anderson Creek Fire is currently 367,620 acres and is now 95 percent contained. Containment is
now estimated at 98 percent for the portion of the fire in Woods County, OK. Kansas
officials are reporting the fire to be 81 percent contained in Barber County
and 95 percent contained in Comanche County.

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Oklahoma
Forestry Services has been working with local officials to report over 1,000
bales of hay, hundreds of miles of fence line and approximately 600 cattle were
lost in the Oklahoma portion of the Anderson Creek Fire. Oklahoma Emergency
Management damage assessments of structure loss are on-going. Kansas and
Oklahoma officials report 16 residential structures and 25 other minor
structures were destroyed. There have been no reports of injuries or fatalities
on the fire in Oklahoma and Kansas.

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Today holds potential for critical fire
weather conditions, warm temperatures, low relative humidity, strong winds and
a complicating frontal passage late in the afternoon. Given the forecast,
recent fire behavior, fire occurrence and trend in location, Oklahoma Forestry
Services will preposition resources to be available for mobilization to support
and suppress any new fire starts.

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A county burn ban is in place in Texas,
Harper and Cimarron counties. Oklahoma Forestry Services is the state's lead
agency related to wildland fire prevention, protection and use. For additional
information about wildfires, visit www.forestry.ok.gov/wildfire-information.

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Agriculture producers who have been impacted by the fire need to
contact their county Farm Service Agency (FSA) office. The FSA office has
programs that can assist producers who have lost cattle, hay and grass due to
the wildland fires.??Agriculture producers can locate and find the contact
information for their FSA county office at http://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app?state=ok&agency=fsa.??

In Oklahoma, FSA will be having a public meeting for agriculture
producers who have been impacted by the ???Anderson
Creek Fire in Oklahoma on Thursday, March 31, at 1 p.m. at the
Northwest Technology Center, 1801 11th Street, Alva, OK.

??For those who would like to contribute
monetarily, you can do so by mail or online via the Oklahoma Cattlemen's
Foundation. Make checks payable to Oklahoma Cattlemen's Foundation and put
???Fire Relief??? in the memo line and send to P.O. Box 82395, Oklahoma City, OK
73148. To donate online, visit http://okcattlemen.org/woodscountycattlemenfirerelieffund.aspx.

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In Kansas, regarding donation requests for hay or fencing
materials, residents may contact Kansas Livestock Association representatives.?? Residents should contact Sandra Levering in
Coldwater at 620-518-2247 or Chris Boyd in Medicine Lodge at 620-243-2584.

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