I honestly don’t think there’s a single law enforcement person in Kingfisher and Blaine counties who doesn’t know who Tyrel McLane is…and that’s not a bad thing.

But it could have been.

McLane and his wife Lacey are owners of M6 Wrecker and Recovery Service. Whenever there’s an accident in Kingfisher or Blaine counties, Tyrel is the one they call, day or night.

He’s also one of Kingfisher’s very unique success stories. Tyrel turns 37 years old this month and he lived an early life of tough lessons and hard knocks.

However, he was wise enough and smart enough to accept those lessons and take the positives learned from them and never look back on his journey to personal, family and business success.

He and his twin brother Tyson and older brother Tarence were raised by their mother in a home on Fifth Street in Kingfisher.

Their father abandoned the family while the boys were very young. They never knew him, but Tyrel credits Jody Pirtle as the father figure in their lives who taught the boys to hunt and fish.

Tyrel is something of a local legend when it comes to finding trophy bucks. If he was born a couple hundred years earlier, no doubt he would have made a name for himself as an accomplished frontiersman or mountain man.

He has the skills and passion and he always finds time to teach the craft to his four children: Jerzie, 14, Milo, 7, Maizee, 5, and McKinnon, 2.

He also mentors every child that comes his way showing an interest in hunting and fishing. Adults too.

There’s dozens and dozens of people he’s put into productive hunting opportunities as he’s extremely generous with his time and knowledge.

When Tyrel and Tyson were 18 years old, they made the judgment error of helping someone commit insurance fraud and were subsequently convicted as non-violent felons.

Their paths were slightly different.

Tyrel was sentenced to serve time in Lexington for 120 days and then sent for six months of “boot camp” in Fort Supply for rehabilitation for young offenders.

Tyrel said the instructors at Fort Supply told those in the program that statistics showed that only 2 percent would not be repeat offenders and would go on to lead successful lives.

“I told myself right there that I was definitely not going to be in that 98% and that’s been my motivation and mission ever since,” Tyrel said. Aside from the law enforcement personnel, very few residents of the Kingfisher area do not know Tyrel.

He’s that personable. He just naturally likes people and the young man gets around.

Tyrel is typically up early every morning and his internal motor runs in high gear just like his business, 24/7.

He’s always available. Folks who are around him discover that his cell phone rings almost constantly.

Upon release from the Fort Supply young offender program, Tyrel went to work for Eric Gilbert at K&S Tire in Kingfisher as a farm tire replace- ment specialist and soon became a very successful outside tire salesman for the company, calling on oilfield and trucking companies.

From there he went to work for Brad Wittrock at TerraStar, a Kingfisher oilfield service company, as operations manager and he credits both of his previous bosses for teaching him through words and actions as to how to successfully run his own business.

When Justin Mueggenborg of Southside Wrecker Service decided to no longer operate the longtime Kingfisher business, Tyrel contacted him and from that conversation, M6 Wrecker and Recovery was born over three years ago.

From only one flatbed truck, Tyrel and Lacey have grown the business to include seven employees and they now operate light, medium and heavy-duty wrecker trucks out of two yards in Kingfisher and Blaine counties.

He and Lacey run the business from their home in Kingfisher.

It’s the large white multi-story frame home on Seventh Street, just west, across the alley from the Kingfisher Post Office.

Most folks know it as the Larry and Lucie Boyle home. It’s a busy place, but even more-so now as it’s currently undergoing construction work and remodeling of the front and back entries.

The McLane family rarely rests. They are a busy bunch.

We at this newspaper office have, upon several occasions, received phone calls and e-mails from people outside this community wanting to know the name and contact information of Tyrel so they could send him a message of thanks for the assistance he provided when they had vehicle problems while traveling through Kingfisher County.

They all commented that Tyrel got them out of their jam and refused payment for his services.

That’s simply his nature. He received help from others and wants to pay it forward when possible.

Tyrel counts retired Kingfisher County Associate District Judge Bob Davis as a friend, as well as Kingfi sher resident Virgil Bonham, longtime employee of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.

Both have been very supportive over the years, and Bonham successfully wrote a recommendation for him and Lacey to receive their license to own and operate M6 even though Tyrel was a felon.

Davis said he “certainly would have done the same” if he had been asked to do so.

“Both those boys were ornery when they came before me, but I could tell they were good, smart hard-working kids who deserved a chance,” Davis said.

“I am extremely proud of those boys. They have become outstanding young men.”

And about that felony charge: it’s going away soon as it is scheduled to be parbusiness doned/expunged soon.

And Tyson has his own success story.

He helped his twin with his business for several years, but on the side started his own concrete business and has become so busy that he rarely has time to assist Tyrel with the wrecker any longer.

If that’s not a homegrown success story, I don’t know what one looks like.

And if you wondered about the business name: M6 represents the six Mc-Lane family members.