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Drenching rain on Tuesday put a stop to Cherokee County’s fire vulnerability and local and state agencies are responding in kind with a lifting of burn bans just in time for Thanksgiving.
Drenching rain on Tuesday put a stop to Cherokee County’s fire vulnerability Steve Troxler, commissioner, N.C.
The fire began around 9 a.m. Thursday in Haywood County on I-40 at mile marker 3 near the tunnel after a tractor-trailer overturned in the westbound lanes near the Tennessee border.
More than 5,447 acres burned, state of emergency declared amid drought and difficult terrain.
A wildfire is burning almost 4,000 acres in North Carolina.The U.S. Forest Service provided an update to this fire on Wednesday, November 8.