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Crews work to knock out a fire west of Copan Lake and south of Highway 10 in Washington County.

According to Washington County Fire Department Chief Kary Cox, eight agencies and Bureau of Indian Affair resources are being utilized to battle a large wildfire. Cox says they have been fighting the fire for a few hours and anticipate it will take that much longer to fully extinguish the flames. He says the fire was about 40-percent contained by 6:27 p.m. on Sunday.

Cox says they still have an active and hard running front on the east side of the fire that they are focusing resources on presently.

It is believed that the fire may have rekindled from a fire that took place on Saturday night in the area.

Pictured left: Smoke from the fire west of Copan Lake can be seen from Bartlesville. Firefighters from all over Washington County can be seen and heard heading north to handle the situation.

Bartlesville Ambulance was seen heading north through Dewey towards the fire. Cox says there have been no injuries related to the fire, however, there was a traffic accident that occurred near Copan Lake. He says there were a couple structures that were threatened at one point, but no homes have been impacted by the wildfire.

Cox says roughly 1,500 acres have burned so far.

We will have more when it becomes available.