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Many turn the trip into a full Memorial Day weekend exploration of Brevard and the surrounding natural wonders – the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A top leader at the North Carolina Forest Service says the agency is understaffed and underfunded as the agency and the region recovers from Hurricane Helene. Michael Cheek ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Forest Service is in Brunswick County working on the Sunset Road Fire. The Sunset Road Fire started late Friday morning, and by Friday evening, the fire ...

According to the U.S. Forest Service, the fire is about seven miles west of Robbinsville, North Carolina, and two miles west of Lake Santeetlah. There are no evacuations in effect at this time ...

Extensive personnel shortages at the N.C. Forest Service (NCFS) hampered the agency’s ability to manage the wildfires that raged in Western North Carolina ... a UNC Asheville health sciences ...

Calls for wildfires in March have nearly doubled since last year, according to NC Forest Service despite a statewide burn ban in the same month. Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A statewide ban on all open burning was lifted in every county in North Carolina on Wednesday. The Burn Ban, issued by the N.C. Forest Service, went into effect on March 21 ...

THE BLAZE IS BURNING IN THE LESTER AND DIX CREEK AREAS NEAR ASHEVILLE ... wildfires are burning in North Carolina as the state is under a burn ban by the Forest Service. The burn ban was issued ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Robert Scheller, landscape ... North Carolina, but lately it's been so windy and dry that the Carolinas are currently fighting wildfires. The North Carolina Forest ...

Officials with the North Carolina Forest Service are reminding people it’s illegal to fly drones in the same airspace as wildfires. If a drone is reported to be near one of the fire-fighting ...