Georgia wildfires update

Wildfires continue to burn in southeast Georgia, more than a week after flaring up. Schools in Ware County will be closed today for a sixth straight day. Officials say that more than 56-thousand acres have now burned, with 18 homes destroyed.

Containment of the fire is at about 45-percent, but firefighters would like to get down another 23 miles of ‘firebreaks’.

There is some fire burning in the Okefenokee Swamp, and flames have now drawn to within two-thousand feet of the northern edge of the Wildlife Refuge.