Download our free app for Apple, Android and Kindle devices.Stay in touch with us anytime, anywhere. ‘Oceans of Possibilities’ for Tulsa Library Summer Reading Program.GRDA Police searching for missing boater.For more information, please call City Hall at 91. We are currently looking for a park host as well. If you would like to apply, please come get an application at City Hall. DOWNLOAD the 2 News Oklahoma app for alerts The Town of Webbers Falls is currently hiring for a part-time position for town general maintenance.ODOT urges motorists traveling through the state to avoid the vicinity entirely. Suspect in deadly Taft shooting turns himself in Due to the I-40 bridge hit in Webbers Falls, all vehicles are being detoured along area highways.The families of the victims said they are grateful for the family they have found in the Webbers Falls community. “We met a lot of the survivors, and we met a lot of who did not make it, the Johnson family that had the child, so it’s a reliving, and it’s also a thanksgiving," Barlow said. “You just don’t believe, you know, what’s happening, it’s just not real you know that you lose such a close family member,” Schluterman said.Ī journey of grief so profound, it's brought families of victims and survivors closer together. Sculterman's 28-year-old sister, 30-year-old brother-in-law, and four-year-old niece were on their way to the Tulsa Zoo, but they never made it. “It reminds me of Shea, and that she’s going to heaven and that everybody is following behind her,” Teresa Schulterman, who lost three family members said. “I know so many of us went through so much during that time,” Terry Angier with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation said. Although 20 years have passed, many still remember the pain of that day. ![]() Her niece was among the 14 people who were killed when an errant barge hit the pillars of the I-40 bridge pier near Webbers falls, causing a section of the bridge to collapse over the Arkansas River.īarlow said her niece was coming from a barrel racing competition in Fort Smith, Arkansas and was on her way to Stockdale, Texas when the incident happened. “The emotion of it still is within,” Barlow said. ![]() “I mean I sit here, I stand here, I come here, I look down there at that bridge and I say…no, but yes.it’s real,” Janette Barlow, aunt of one of the victims, said as she looked at the memorial.īarlow would give anything to have her niece, Gail Shanahan, here Monday. ![]() The memorial also honors the lives of those who survived. The Webbers Falls community held a memorial ceremony Monday to remember the lives of the people who lost their lives when the I-40 bridge collapsed 20 years ago after it was struck by a barge.
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