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Crews working to box in wildfire near Georgia-Florida line

By Associated Press
Published: May 10, 2017, 9:38am
A fire truck passes as a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire burning Monday just outside the town of St. George, Ga. Officials placed the town under a mandatory evacuation after winds pushed the fire out of the neighboring Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, where a lightning strike started the blaze a month earlier.
A fire truck passes as a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire burning Monday just outside the town of St. George, Ga. Officials placed the town under a mandatory evacuation after winds pushed the fire out of the neighboring Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, where a lightning strike started the blaze a month earlier. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

FOLKSTON, Ga. — Grounds crews with plows and bulldozers are working to box in a wildfire threatening small communities at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia.

Fire officials said in a news release Wednesday the vast fire near the Georgia-Florida state line has charred more than 220 square miles (570 sq.

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