Polk County wildfire triples in 8 hours; fires burn over 2,000 acres
Polk County officials are urging some residents who live near uncontrolled fires to “leave now” as two of the fires surge over 1,000 acres each, tripling in size over mere hours. As of 5:30 p.m. on March 21, the Deep Woods Fire near Holbert Cove Road jumped to 1,102 acres with no containment, N.C. Forest…