70 percent of huge Ga. wildfire now contained

Monday, April 30, 2007

WAYCROSS, Ga. -- Firefighters have managed to contain about 70 percent of the largest wildfire in Georgia history, which had charred 100 square miles of forest and swampland, officials said Sunday.

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