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More evacuations ordered near Ne Minnesota Wildfire

More evacuations ordered near Ne Minnesota Wildfire
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Isabella: Authorities ordered more evacuation Monday near the fire that spread quickly, it was one of several combusances in the Northeastern Minnesota.
The Sheriff Lake County office said that new evacuations occur near Lake Grouse and Lake Mitewan because of the growth of Greenwood Lake which grew, about 15 miles southwest of Isabella City in a superior national forest.
About 50 houses and cabins are borne by orders.
Evacuation follows permission of more than 100 houses and cabins in the area last week.
The fire caused by lightning, which was first detected on August 15, has burned around 14 square miles on Monday morning, which has not changed from Sunday.
But Clark McCreedy, a public information officer for the interaggency team that manages fires, says there is a “big fire growth” Monday afternoon.
Th The Greenwood Lake Fire is one of the several fire burns in superior national forests.
They pushed the closure of the area of ​​the wilderness of the wilderness canoe on Saturday for the first time in 45 years.
The authorities say the closure allows the crew to focus on existing and new fires and is not safe.
Rangers continued Monday to row and climb to visitors in a vast wilderness area to warn them about closing, scheduled to walk at least until Friday.
Meanwhile, firefighters worked Monday to load a dozen large northern California forest fires that had destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to escape to a safe place.
And the fire burned around 200 hectares at Michigan’s remote Isle Royale encouraged national park services to close several lanes and campsites on Wilderness Island on Lake Superior.
The Greenwood Lake Fire threatens to cross the Minnesota Highway 1, a northeast-west route through the forest that connects Ely with superior lake near Silver Bay.
The highway has been closed near the fire as a preventive measure since last week.
Also closed was Lake County Highway 2, whose fires surged Friday.
A new Red Cross evacuation center opened in the ice arena in Babbitt, west of the fire, to complete a set up last week in the city of Finland, safely east of fire.
The Forestry Service said it was carrying a local contract logger on Monday to work on the BREAK BREAK project in the main locations to help stop the spread of fire.
The main concern that caused the closure of the waters of the boundary was a separate John Ek fire, which had burned around 800 hectares (324 hectares) in the wilderness since it was detected by August 14.
It was caused by the South Lightning attack of Lake Southern Southern Southern.
Because it is difficult to access by land or water, no crew directly fight, except for a few drops of air water.
Connie Cummins forest supervisor described Monday on his decision to close the BWCA, said in the video posted to social media that the condition of drought continued to deteriorate to the level “we have not seen the date.” “This is not the decision that I made easily,” Cummins said, acknowledging its impact on business, visitors who spent months planning trips and forest employees who came to help from all over the country.
The decision will be reevaluated every day, and some areas can be reopened faster than others.

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