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It’s a desperate fight— on the ground and in the air— against the spread of massive, destructive wildfires in northern Minnesota. The Flanders wildfire near Breezy Point is the largest— 1500 acres and growing, with zero containment. “You know, it’s an incredible amount of destruction we’ve seen in the last couple of days,” says Jason Metsa, owner of Pelican Lake Resort on Norway Point. “Things are primed for the forests up here to be a tinderbox right now.” Crow Wing County officials have called for some residents to evacuate their homes; others are on standby. Meanwhile, Metsa shared several videos with KSTP, showing flames just off Nett Lake Road in rural Orr, Minnesota.
What began as a grass fire, possibly sparked off by a fallen power line— expanded to ten acres.
“We just ran into the fire, started stomping stuff out and the DNR showed up with some water,” Metsa says. “Several minutes later and we were able to scotch that one out and make sure it didn’t take off.”
“We could see it jump the road and it was climbing the trees, and it was a mile south of us,” recalls Lara Coyer.
She and her husband Ross are owners of the Cabin O’Pines resort, on the south side of Pelican Lake.
“There were forty-foot, fifty-foot balsam and pine trees that were completely engulfed,” Ross Coyer says. “That’s the critical moment. When we saw those flames, we knew it was very serious.”
The couple says they were preparing to evacuate about twenty guests, when firefighters arrived.
“That first truck if they had not turned up and got it when it went to the other side of the road and doused it straight away, we’d be having a very different conversation right now,” Lara Coyer declares.
At the Stewart Trail fire in the Two Harbors area, there are 108 firefighters on the line.
Aircraft are dropping water and fire retardant, even as about 375 acres remain on fire, with zero containment.
“Team crews of firefighters have been working on putting in hand lines, which remove vegetation down to the soil level so the fire can’t burn across it,” explains Karen Harrison, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Incident Command System.
Source: Wildfires in northern Minnesota spreading to hundreds of acres – KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
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