Get ready: Indiana DNR prepping for 2024 total solar eclipse

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- It may be seven months away, but the Indiana Department of Natural Resources will have been planning for seven years by the time the next total solar eclipse occurs.The next total solar eclipse will be on April 8, 2024, and, during the afternoon hours, a major portion of the Hoosier state is in the path of totality.Shortly after the last total solar eclipse in 2017, the Indiana DNR got a call about booking an inn at one of its state parks for seven years in the future.