Fire Continues to Smolder in Minnesota

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Weather.com - AP, 10/7/12

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A fire consumes a house in Karlstad, Minn., Tuesday evening, Oct. 2, 2012, after wildfires spread fueled by high winds and dry conditions.

RED LAKE, Minn. -- A wildfire is still burning near Red Lake in northern Minnesota, fire management officials said Sunday.

The North Minnie fire has burned more than 38 square miles. The fire, the largest of several burning in northwestern Minnesota, threatens private land, timber resources, a major power line and a few private hunting cabins in Beltrami Island State Forest. Fire information officer Gill Knight told Minnesota Public Radio that the North Minnie fire is 30 percent contained.

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