Weekend rain helped fire fight, but wildfire threat can still intensify
BATON ROUGE - Over the weekend there was a little bit of relief in the fight against wildfires in Beauregard Parish, as some rain did finally fall, but for firefighters the battle is not over."Weather moved in a little bit. We had some thunderstorms move in, kind of capped the fire, kind of calmed everything down," operations section chief Pete Myers said.As of Monday morning, the fires that have burned more than 50,000 acres are about 50 percent contained, but the rain relief may have just bee
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