Western NC wildfires live updates Friday, March 28: See the latest from around the region

Multiple wildfires continue to burn in Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate Friday, March 28, some entering their second weeks of blaze.

Thousands of acres have burned, and hundreds of firefighters from across the country are battling the wildfires around the clock. Evacuations have been ordered. Some homes have been destroyed. Only one injury has been reported.

The largest fire in the region is the Table Rock Fire in Pickens County, South Carolina, which crossed the state line into Transylvania County in North Carolina on Thursday, March 27. In North Carolina, large wildfires are burning in Polk County , the Deep Woods and Black Cove fires; Swain County, the Alarka Fire ; and Haywood County, the Rattlesnake Branch Fire…

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