“Based upon the damage suffered by the City of Mannford and surrounding areas, I have declared a state of emergency for our city. This is necessary to enable the City to access additional resources, to provide continuing emergency measures, and to ensure the City take all steps necessary to deal with this situation.

At this point, we have a number of residents whose homes were destroyed, and a number of agencies and volunteers are providing assistance to them.  Although there were losses, the work of the Mannford Fire Department and other city employees, the residents, many volunteers and neighbors, Creek County and the State Emergency Management employees, and the many other departments who assisted, we avoided a much larger loss.  We are thankful for all of those who have helped and who continue to help. As always in these situations, the Mannford business community is working tirelessly to assist. Continuing help will be needed.

Through a great deal of work overnight, we believe we have kept most utilities available, including water, electric and natural gas.  Work is ongoing to restore other areas.

We are most thankful that there was no loss of life as a result of this event. We will provide updates as we can.”