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🎥Power restored, road still closed after Kansas oil spill
BARBER COUNTY —Early Tuesday, crews restored power to customers impacted by the outage as a result of the oil spill, according to Southern Pioneer Electric. Crews constructed a temporary bypass line that will provide power until the company is able to make permanent repairs. Southern Pioneer thanked consumers for...
Oil spill leads to road closures, power outages in Barber County
Barber County Emergency Management said an oil spill sent crude oil flowing across a roadway and led to power outages late Monday. Oil was shooting out of a well near K2 west of Kiowa. The highway from Northstar to 281 was shut down due to an oil well blowing out across the highway.
Electricity restored after Barber County oil spill
BARBER COUNTY, Kan. (KAKE) - Energy company Southern Pioneer restored power to residents in Barber County Tuesday morning after electricity was shut off due to an oil spill that occurred Monday. On their Facebook page, Southern Pioneer said that oil from a well near Hardtner coated electric lines, causing them...
BNSF equipment collides with private vehicle on Kiowa's west tracks
Monday, July 1, at 11:17 a.m., a call came in to the Barber County Sheriff's Office about an accident on the train track crossing on the west edge of Kiowa. Undersheriff Garrett McLemore responded with other emergency personnel. McLemore said that Nathan Drake of Hardtner was westbound on Main at...
Oil well `blowout' spews oil into the air west of Kiowa
Ironically, Kiowa had a county-wide emergency drill late afternoon Friday. There was supposed to be black smoke billowing from a tanker. Well, black smoke really was billowing Monday afternoon, July 1, from an oilwell west of Kiowa on the south side of the highway a mile or less from US-281.
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