‘Real-life superhero’: Praise for rescue as NC coastal wildfire battle continues near Shallotte, Ocean Isle

the wildfire burned the area.

Air operations on Saturday afternoon led crews to lower the size estimate of the fire to around 285 acres — not the previously announced 500 acres on Saturday.

“Due to more accurate mapping and reconnaissance flight data, the fire is 300 acres in size,” the forest service said about the blaze, officially called the Quarry continue reading …