Fire call leads to discovery of transients living in Oklahoma City storm drains shares email

Smoke coming from a storm drain led firefighters to an unusual situation Tuesday morning along a busy intersection in Oklahoma City. Just before 8:10 a.m., firefighters were near the intersection of Reno Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, collecting donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association when a passerby reported a fire in the storm drain. Battalion Chief Benny Fulkerson said a firefighter equipped with a water can went into the storm drain and quickly extinguished the small fire, but found he wasn't alone. “(He) ran into a couple of what we assume are homeless people who were living down there or at least who stay down there a good portion of the time," Fulkerson said. "One of them was acting a little bit erratic, kind of hollering, screaming some things but the other one, the male, was fine."