A wildfire that broke out early Tuesday afternoon in Clow Township about 10 miles northwest of Lancaster and later jumped the border into Manitoba was about 70 percent contained as of Wednesday morning, officials said.
According to Christi Powers, an information officer for the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center in Grand Rapids, air crews Wednesday morning, May 16, estimated the size of the fire at 1,300 acres in an area that's about half forest and half grasslands.
A cabin was confirmed destroyed by the fire, Powers said.
Crews from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, along with several local fire departments from communities in Kittson County, battled the blaze on the ground. DNR aircraft, along with two CL-415 Canadian water bomber planes deployed from Kenora, Ont., attacked the fire from the air, she said.