Georgia wildfires update

Despite windy conditions in the wildfire-affected areas of southeast Georgia and northern Florida, officials reported progress out of Tuesday. Firefighters were able to set a "burn out" of some brush along a road in the Okefenokee Refuge. In addition, containment lines held against wind-aided flames. The largest fire that has crossed the state line has burned a combined 248-thousand acres. The other blaze in Ware and Charlton counties stands at 136-thousand acres burned.

There is good news to report from north Georgia, as the two fires there are under control: the blaze along the Gilmer-Murray county line is 80-percent contained. It has burned private and U-S Forest Service land, about one-thousand acres. The Pickens County fire is 100-percent contained-it has charred about 100 acres.