Tagged: Mark Twain National Forest

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Federal officials say two fires in southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest have been contained, but new ones have broken out.

Arson is the suspected cause of a fire that burned about 620 acres of the Mark Twain National Forest.

Fire concerns are widening in southeast Missouri as crews battle a 550-acre blaze in the Mark Twain National Forest.

Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday ordered the Missouri National Guard to get ready to assist with firefighting efforts. The fire broke out Thursday in a section of the 1.5-million-acre forest located in Iron County, and the governor's office says about 2,000 additional acres are at risk.

Three hundred more acres of Mark Twain National Forest in Salem have burned since last night, in a fire that has burned 5,000 acres since Tuesday afternoon.