The Camp House Fire has destroyed 144 structures, according to an update around 11 p.m. from St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay. The Jenkins Creek Fire had left a "couple structures destroyed and damaged," per Ramsay, though "the fire is too active in the area to check and get more details on those buildings that were lost."

The wildfires burning across far northern Minnesota have nearly doubled in size from Tuesday, with 40,000 acres having been burned as of early Wednesday morning.

Crews continue to battle three wildfires on Tuesday in northeastern Minnesota, all with zero containment.St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay says the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the U.

A Tennessee hotshot crew is battling wildfires in northeastern Minnesota that have burned nearly 20,000 acres.

Two major wildfires continue to burn in northeastern Minnesota, prompting evacuations and drawing additional firefighting resources to the region. As of Wednesday morning, the Jensen Creek Fire in St.

An update issued at 7:46 a.m. revealed that the Jenkins Creek Fire expanded to 6,000 acres, a significant increase from the 1,500 acres it had devoured as of Monday evening.

Due to their close proximity, fire officials have merged the Camp House and Jenkins Creek fires into one entity, now called the Brimson Complex Fire.

The bar has had some “rude” rubberneckers treating the tragedy “like a bonfire,” said Jessica Willemarck, but by and large, the proprietors have seen “just a lot of concerned people trying to figure out what’s all going on.”

A new incident command team will take over the response to the two largest fires beginning Wednesday, state officials said.

Walz authorized the guard with an executive order to help the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center with the Camp House wildfire just north of Brimson, Minnesota.