Updates: French Creek Fire (PA) and Honey Prairie Fire are out

I want to take a time out and update you on news regarding the French Creek (PA) and the Honey Prairie Fires.

About three weeks ago, I wrote about the wildfire that was then burning in the French Creek Park in Berks County in eastern Pennsylvania here. Michael Archer of the Firebomber Publications Blog posted an article from the The Mercury (Pottstown PA) on April 24 reporting that the 741 acre wildfire was extinguished on Monday, April 23. The rains that fell in eastern PA helped firefighters extinguish this fire.

For the last several months, I have reported from time to time about the Honey Prairie Complex Fires in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. My last update was on Feb. 17, 2012.  On April 17, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued this press release saying that the Honey Prairie Fire, which burned some 309,200 acres since April 28, 2011, was declared out. At the time I write this, an archive of past maps and press releases about the Honey Prairie Fire may be found here.