Fire crews across the North Carolina mountains have been rushing to put out any fire that ignites in their area that has no substantial rain in the last 27 days.
Firefighters rushed to Nobby Lail Road where the property owner said he had burned some trash when the wind and dry conditions caused the fire to spread out of control.
The North Carolina Forest Service used a bulldozer to keep it from reaching nearby homes.
The cold front that moved through the area last night didn't amount to much rain at the Forest Service headquarters in Lenoir.
It has been nearly a month since the area has seen a soaking rain.
"You can see everything in here is dried out,” Justin Query with the Forest Service said. “Conditions are really getting dry and they are ready for ignition."
In the mountains, the U.S. Forest Service has put up nearly 100 signs warning campers not to set any camp fires right now.
"This particular two months has been extraordinarily dry,” Stephen Eren with the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards said. “The river has been very low. The Linville (Gorge) is down to a trickle and we've just being seeing a very small amount of moisture."
In the Linville Gorge, embers from one campfire charred nearly 10 acres recently along Old N.C. Highway 105.
U.S. Forest Service officials said it has fought 13 fires over the last two weeks and are getting help from firefighters from as far away as New Mexico.
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