VIDEO: Multiple wildfires were actively burning Wednesday in North and South Carolina, where a blaze that erupted over the weekend forced evacuations and a state of emergency. The largest of them, in the Carolina Forest area near Myrtle Beach, has spread over 2,000 acres.
Efforts were underway to contain the active fires in the Carolinas. Officials listed 96 wildfires in North Carolina as of Wednesday afternoon, totaling more than 1,600 acres. This was down from more than 200 blazes on Monday, according to the North Carolina Forest Service. The number of wildfires accounts for both reported fires and confirmed ones, and the latter group includes active blazes along with others considered contained or controlled. A contained wildfire is one that still burns but is no longer spreading, while a controlled fire has been extinguished. The forest service was continuously updating an interactive map to chart the locations and basic characteristics of each fire, marking active incidents in red and reported incidents in green. Contained and controlled fires were marked brown and gray, respectively.
