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A rash of grass fires, brush fires and forest fires broke out in a warm, windy weather regime from the Plains to the East Coast Tuesday, destroying at least one home in North Carolina and another in Iowa. The same weather pattern sparked numerous grass fires Monday, killing a Nebraska man. Wildfires also broke out in parts of the West Tuesday, prompting evacuations in at least one Southern California city.
The fires are just the latest round in a days-long series of virtually countless grass fires, most of them small and short-lived, mainly in the Plains states. One of those fires burned a cluster of abandoned cars near Kearney, Nebraska, on Monday. The body of a local man was found in one of the burned-out cars, according to Lincoln television station KOLN.
Homes Burn Tuesday in Iowa, North Carolina
A large grass fire broke out on the northern edge of Sioux City, Iowa, Tuesday afternoon. The inferno spread to a house, destroying it and several neighboring buildings, according to the Sioux City Journal. Reporter Kirby Kaufman said via Twitter that the homeowner watched as her home burned down.
KCAU-TV said the response to the fire was initially limited because there were already two grass fires underway in the Sioux City area when it started.
A wildfire is seen from Interstate 40 at the Swannanoa River bridge near Black Mountain, North Carolina, on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (Twitter/Erin Schwie Langston)
Over a thousand miles away, a forest fire broke out near Black Mountain, North Carolina, Tuesday afternoon. WLOS-TV said one home was destroyed and five others burned in the blaze, which broke out around 2:30 p.m. and quickly grew to 500 acres.
The Black Mountain Fire Department clarified that the destroyed home was a mobile home. The agency urged motorists to avoid Interstate 40 in the vicinity of the fire.
Westerly wind gusts near 20 mph were reported in the area Tuesday afternoon, but those winds subsided quickly after sunset. Relative humidity values fell to near 20 percent in the Asheville area, signaling a very dry air mass.
Both the Iowa and North Carolina fires appeared to remain active at the time of this writing.
Courtesy of The Weather Channel
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