Wildfires

Wildfires – Ireland

In Northern Ireland a fire is during in the Mournes Mountains just south of Newcastle. After three days, firefighters have brought the Slieve Donard blaze under control after it burned an area “the size of 500 football pitches,” about 880 acres.

Two fires have burned about one-third of Killarney National Park, approximately 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) are blackened according to an estimate by the park’s Chief Fire Officer.

Wildfires – Michigan, USA

A controlled burn that turned into a 6,100-acre wildfire in Michigan was 32% contained Saturday and not growing, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said. The fire was in Iosco County, which has part of the Huron-Manistee National Forests, roughly 80 miles north of Bay City. Some residents were urged to evacuate Friday, but those warnings were subsequently lifted.

Wildfires – Arizona, USA

A wildfire is “raging out of control” in the Hualapai Mountains near Pine Lake, Arizona, according to officials. The blaze, named the Flag Fire, is about 600 acres in size. Officials in the county issued evacuation orders for about 200 residents of Pine Lake.

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