Minnesota wildfires continue to spread
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The Camp House Fire has destroyed 144 structures, according to an update around 11 p.m. from St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay. The Jenkins Creek Fire had left a "couple structures destroyed and damaged," per Ramsay, though "the fire is too active in the area to check and get more details on those buildings that were lost."
Three major wildfires raging out of control in the same Minnesota county have burned more than 20,000 acres combined.
A Tennessee hotshot crew is battling wildfires in northeastern Minnesota that have burned nearly 20,000 acres.
The U.S. Forest service says say the Camp House fire has burned over 12,000 acres and 140 structures have been destroyed.
The Camp House Fire near Brimson has grown to 750 acres as of Monday morning. It was zero-percent contained as crews worked on the ground and from the air to douse the flames.
A wildfire fueled by dry conditions and high winds about an hour north of Duluth grew to more than 1 square mile in just a few hours. The Camphouse Fire near Brimson, Minn., was detected Sunday shortly after 1 p.
The fire, which started north of the town of Brimson near the Superior National Forest, has already blackened 750 acres and is growing.
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FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul on MSNWildfire in Superior National Forest grows to 750 acres, forces evacuationsA wildfire in the Superior National Forest has now burned 750 acres and forced some evacuations in northern Minnesota on Sunday.