Crews Watch Hot Spots
WRAL
Clayton, N.C. — At least 100 people were forced to evacuate their homes Sunday as brush fires stormed across North Carolina.
About 1,000 acres burned in Halifax County, but property damage was minimal, according to Robert Smith with the North Carolina Forest Service.
Sixteen fires burned in Halifax County overnight, but officials were able to reduce that number to eight fires by Monday morning. Most of the fires in Franklin County were also out Monday, but crews were still watching for hot spots.
Winds gusting to 60 mph blew trees onto power lines left some 5,335 customers without power in the northern region of the state – Raleigh to the Virginia state line – according to a 10:15 p.m. report by Progress Energy.