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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Fires cause mandatory evacuation for small community

Fire officials have issued a mandatory evacuation for Moniac Georgia, a small community right on the Florida Border as continuing wildfires threaten homes there.
Officials in Florida and Georgia have been evacuating people in the line of a fire that was started by lighting this weekend in the Okefenokee National Wildlife refuge in South East Georgia. It has spread to over 40 thousand acres and has not been contained at all by firefighters. Now the blaze know as the Bugga Boo Scrub fire is threatening the small community of Moniac. This fire is only separated by a few miles from other wildfires that have already burned more than 100 thousand acres over the past few weeks. Firefighters have that blaze 45 percent under control. A mandatory evacuation of the homes Moniac means that there's a chance the fire could through there as early as midnight.

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