A week after a woman accused of igniting a wildfire that burned thousands of acres in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Florida Forest Service has taken command.
Horry County firefighters and South Carolina Forestry Commission are working to extinguish a more than 2,000-acre wildfire that has burned for seven days in the Myrtle Beach area.
Firefighters continue to battle a wildfire that has grown in the Myrtle Beach area. Horry County officials report when the fire that became the massive blaze began.
A federal grant to help fight South Carolina wildfires has been approved after an initial rejection, providing key funding for firefighting costs.
Lighter winds in South Carolina and North Carolina are helping firefighters battle blazes that caused evacuations and threatened hundreds of homes over the weekend.