April 25 (UPI) -- Two wildfires in Georgia have burned thousands of acres and dozens of homes over a couple of days amid extreme drought in the Southeast.
The fires -- the Highway 82 Fire in Brantley County and the Pineland Road Fire in Clinch County -- have between them scorched more than 40,000 acres and destroyed at least 120 homes, ActionNewsJax and CBS News reported.
Each of the two fires is roughly 10% contained, and are among a host of blazes being fought in southeast Georgia and northeast Florida, where the weather is not expected to cool off any time soon.
"So we got the two most dangerous, biggest, problematic fires anywhere in the United States in the small area we're having to fight," Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp told reporters on Friday.
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