Anadarko, OK Crime & Safety

A fire at the old Chickasha Manufacturing building uncovered what was illegally being stored there.

UNION CITY, Okla. — Police arrested two people after making a drug bust during a traffic stop over the weekend in Union City. On Saturday, Union City police officers stopped a vehicle in the 600 block of North Main Street and learned that the driver had active felony warrants out of Oklahoma County. Police said the officers took the driver into custody and searched the vehicle.

Union City police said they found guns, drugs, and riot control grenades during a routine traffic stop in town over the weekend.

A fire is still burning at a Chickasha manufacturing building 30 hours after it broke out. The fire department told News 9 they will be watching the fire for at least the next two days while they investigate alongside the State Fire Marshal’s Office. Both departments said the manufacturing...

GRADY COUNTY, Okla. — Crews battled a grass and structure fire in Grady County. On Sunday, crews responded to the scene of a structure fire in Chickasha. Officials said the structure was a manufacturing building used to store hand sanitizer and upon arrival, they used exposure protection due to hazmat concerns.

A massive fire burns down an old manufacturing building in Chickasha. Chief Tony Samaniego with the Chickasha Fire Department estimates 1.5 million gallons of hand sanitizer fueled the fire at the Chickasha Manufacturing Building on Sunday. The intense flames and black billowing smoke drew a crowd. “They were tall, they...

UNION CITY (KOKH) - Union City Police arrested a man in Union City with active felony warrants and an arsenal of weapons and illegal drugs. Officials say police conducted a traffic stop on Saturday in the 600 block of North Main. Reports say 36-year-old Heath Lowell Gates of Oklahoma City...

CHICKASHA (KOKH) - Crews are responding to a a large fire at a manufacturing building in Chickasha on Sunday. Officials say the fire spread to 12,000 square feet of the facility, which was being used to store hand sanitizer. The Grady County Fire Department, along with 27 trucks from other...

A warehouse filled with 8,000 pallets of hand sanitizer burned Sunday in Chickasha. The fire broke out Sunday around noon at the Chickasha Manufacturing building in Grady County. The fire department believed the old manufacturing plant was vacant when they arrived. Firefighters initially launched an interior attack on the fire,...