India, Feb. 18 -- A new wildfire that has broken out in the vicinity of Woodward, Oklahoma, is spreading rapidly. Officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders for parts of the city, according to Fox Weather.

Evacuations have been ordered in Kansas too, as the Ranger Road Fire burned more than 15,000 acres Tuesday, February 17. This came amid warnings of critical to extremely critical fire weather across the central and southern Plains.

Meanwhile, residents in Wichita have taken to social media to report that they are seeing massive smoke from the fire. A Facebook user wrote, sharing a photo of smoke blanketing the sky, "Hey Wichita..those are not clouds.that's smoke coming from a MASSIVE fire in southwest Kansas/Oklahoma panhandle....