WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Firefighters used bulldozers Monday to widen breaks that were protecting a small community from a wildfire that has blackened more than 87 square miles of forest in southeast Georgia.
The fire, started April 16 by a fallen power line that ignited tinder-dry trees near the sprawling Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, was about 45 percent contained after burning about 55,600 acres, officials said.
"It's not directly a threat at this time" to homes and communities, said Byron Haire, a spokesman for the Georgia Forestry Commission.