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Rain is lending a hand to about 230 crew members who are battling a wildfire that has consumed 31.6 square miles of forest in the eastern part of Michigan's sparsely populated Upper Peninsula.
Rain is lending a hand to crew members who are battling a wildfire that has consumed 31.6 square miles of forest in the eastern port of Michigan's sparsely populated Upper Peninsula.
ALBUQUERQUE, May 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Memorial Day weekend was anything but a holiday for hundreds of firefighters grappling with wildfires from New Mexico to Michigan.
Michigan firefighters and the National Guard were battling a wildfire Saturday that raged across 21,000 acres in the Upper Peninsula and forced the closure of Tahquamenon Falls State Park. The blaze grew by 17% from Friday to Saturday, state forestry officials said, despite the efforts of fire crews and the help of a water-dumping aircraft from the Michigan National Guard.
TIMMINS, Ont. - Steady showers are expected to bring much-needed relief to northern Ontario communities battling dangerous forest fires for the past week.
A wildfire in the United States has raged out of control in six states, burning hundreds of square kilometers of forest land.
The Defence Forces have been deployed to Glengesh in Co Donegal to fight forest fires.
Officials say a wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has grown to slightly more than 21,000 acres.
A wildfire started by a tree that fell across some power lines Saturday near Keystone was contained by local firefighters.
A massive wildfire in Gila National Forest is getting even bigger, and firefighters are no closer to containing it. Smoke from the fire made its way to Colorado Saturday, with people up and down the front range reporting seeing and smelling it.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ground crews with air support are surrounding a stubborn wildfire that has burned through 4,100 acres of grass and brush in rural San Diego County.
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