Overview
- Around 10 p.m. Wednesday, officials responded to a tanker possibly leaking in the Holiday Inn Express parking lot.
- Emergency alerts ordered evacuations within defined blocks and directed residents to the Pioneer Cellular/Events Center at SWOSU.
- Weatherford Fire says 36 people were hospitalized with respiratory distress linked to the release.
- Authorities closed I-40 exits at Weatherford, and local schools and university classes are canceled today.
- Local outlets report the substance is ammonia and some describe a crash, details that officials are still verifying.