Fire crews have been responding to blazes across western North Carolina as dry, windy conditions have continued.
Aircraft aided crews on Friday as they responded to seven new fires across 17 acres in the NC National Forests. Officials said they held six of the fires to sizes ranging from a tenth of an acre to 1.5 acres.
The largest of the fires was the Jack Branch Fire, which occurred in the Pisgah National Forest, three miles north of Hot Springs…