(UPDATED at 6:15 p.m. MST March 4, 2017)
At 5:47 MST March 4 Jim Strain of South Dakota Fire said the Wolf Fire east of Wall was just about wrapped up and the estimated size was 5,000 acres.
Wrapping up the Wolf fire at est. 5000 acres this evening. Great job @penncofire @USFSNebraska @GPFireInfo pic.twitter.com/cy7OTPXJZG
— Jim Strain (@jim_strain) March 5, 2017
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(Originally published at 4:56 p.m. MST March 4, 2017)
The Wolf Fire has burned thousands of acres in South Dakota between Wall and Quinn. At 3:10 p.m. Great Plains Fire Information reported it had burned about 7,000 acres. The city of Quinn east of the fire was threatened at that time.
A weather station at Wall Saturday afternoon has been recording sustained winds out of the southwest at 30 mph gusting to around 40. At 4:35 p.m. it was 68 degrees with a relative humidity of 19 percent …. tough conditions for firefighters to be successful.
There is another fire 35 miles south of the Wolf fire, 3 miles northeast of Kyle, and a couple of fires in the Black Hills south of Keystone.