Southern U.S. Wildfires Force Residents To Flee

Wildfires tearing through the South this week have forced hundreds of residents in Georgia to flee in minutes. Many have no idea what happened to the homes and animals they left behind. The fires that sparked up during an extreme drought in Georgia and Florida have blanketed cities hundreds of miles away. Air quality warnings remain in effect Thursday across the Southeast. The two biggest fires in southern Georgia have spread rapidly over the past two days and destroyed more than 50 homes in rural areas. It’s not known yet how the wildfires started, but the bottom half of Georgia and northern Florida are both extremely dry.