
A fast-growing wildfire in southeastern Georgia, the Highway 82 Fire, has expanded to more than 31 square miles and continues to spread, with evacuations possible as crews work to contain it. The simultaneous rapid growth of a major Utah fire under similar extreme heat and dry wind conditions highlights a broader, early-season trend of large, fast-moving blazes that are stretching response capacity and increasing smoke and air quality impacts regionally.
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