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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A 7,000-gallon (26,500 liter) oil tank is on fire and billowing thick, black smoke at an Oklahoma City power plant.

Battalion Chief Benny Fulkerson says the immediate area was evacuated Thursday morning out of concern that the tank at the Oklahoma Gas & Electric plant could explode. He says that the danger has since subsided.

Fulkerson says the tank contains a mixture of glycol, heating oil and possibly natural gas. He says spraying water on the tank made the fire worse.

He says fire crews retreated half a mile (0.8 kilometers) from the tank and are monitoring the fire whi...