Minnesota wildfire forces evacuations
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Nearly 37,000 acres have burned since Sunday as three wildfires continue to rage in northern Minnesota, none of which have been contained.
Wildfires have erupted in Minnesota and in southern Canada over recent days, including a handful of major blazes on both sides of the international border.
Three major wildfires raging out of control in the same Minnesota county have burned more than 20,000 acres combined.
Luckily with this go around in the short term we have cooler, wetter weather coming. Places like California will undoubtedly continue to see worsening fire seasons but bad years in Minnesota could become more frequent, even if they are still overall rare compared to the west.
Much of Northern Minnesota remains under extreme fire danager on Wednesday. Northwest Wisconsin is reported as very high fire danger. Use caution.
A Tennessee hotshot crew is battling wildfires in northeastern Minnesota that have burned nearly 20,000 acres.
The Camp House Fire has destroyed 144 structures, according to an update around 11 p.m. from St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay. The Jenkins Creek Fire had left a "couple structures destroyed and damaged," per Ramsay, though "the fire is too active in the area to check and get more details on those buildings that were lost."
A fire in Arizona has set over 3,500 acres ablaze and is continuing to grow as officials work to control the flames, according to officials. The Greer Fire started Tuesday at 11 a.m. local time in Greer, Arizona, which is around 223 miles northeast of Phoenix, Arizona, according to a press release published by 311 Info.