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The North Carolina Forest Service has shared what it called a "final update" on the Black Cove Complex.The total size of the ...
Evacuations: Evacuation levels are constantly being assessed based on fire activity. For updated or current evacuation ...
In Polk and Henderson counties, where the N.C. Forest Service and other regional firefighters have been working at putting ...
Amid staffing shortages at N.C. Forest Service, inmate firefighters in a state program are battling more WNC wildfires.
A home in Saluda made it through wildfires unscathed thanks to crews who proactively watered down woods and did controlled ...
Fire crews will continue to patrol and mop-up along the fire perimeter. 5 p.m.: Black Cove Fire reaches 93% containment Rain and the efforts of firefighters have helped get the Black Cove Complex ...
Rain over the weekend helped fire crews in the region, and they hope more rain and thunderstorms will suppress wildfires ...
Rain helped cool the Black Cove Complex wildfires, slowing fire activity, but crews remain on alert for new challenges.
March wildfires have impacted parts of Western North Carolina, as well as the South Carolina Upstate. The largest fires in WNC were in the the Black Cove Complex in Polk and Henderson counties, that ...
Firefighters have contained 100% of the smallest of the three “Black Cove Complex” fires, known as the Fish Hook Fire, the N.C. Forest Service said in an update Monday morning. That fire ...
MILL SPRING, N.C. — Fire crews battling the Black Cove Complex wildfire received some relief overnight as widespread rain helped cool some of the fire’s hotter areas. More showers and ...