Since
the weekend, wildfires have erupted in Kansas and Nebraska. Firefighters are
battling wildfires even as calmer winds on Wednesday helped contain or
extinguish most of them.
On
Tuesday during the afternoon, a burned man was found crawling in a McCook farm
field in Nebraska, as 50 mph wind gusts whipped flames down a ravine toward the
Red Willow County community of 7,500 people.
Improving
weather conditions Wednesday left crews in 13 Kansas counties fighting blazes
that are contained or almost out. According to fire authorities, 50 fires
have burned about 40 square miles (103.6 square
kilometers).
But
a fire that broke out Wednesday near Hamilton in Greenwood County prompted the
Kansas Army National Guard to send six Black Hawk helicopters to assist the
firefighting operations.
This
year's wildfire outbreak in Kansas pales in comparison to March 2017 when some
2,000 firefighters battled a series of fires that consumed more than 1,000
square miles, killed a truck driver, forced thousands to evacuate, and damaged
or destroyed dozens of structures. Thousands of cattle also died.
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