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900 flee Nebraska fire
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS(CNN) -- At least 900 residents evacuated Chadron, Nebraska, after wildfires reached the town's border and caught several houses on fire Saturday, Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jim Bunstock said. Firefighters worked early Saturday to control six wildfires burning since late Wednesday after multiple lightning strikes hit dry grasslands in the northwestern area of the state, Bunstock said. The wildfires span across a 25-mile area, he said. Personnel from the state and federal National Guard, federal firefighters and other agencies are assisting in quelling the fire, which may grow or shift given Saturday's "hot, windy and dry" forecasted weather conditions, Bunstock said. Further evacuations depend on the damage produced by the two fires that were burning parts of Chadron late Friday into Saturday. "We don't have a damage assessment at this point because the smoke was so thick and it was sundown," he said. "We won't know until the morning." So far no death or injuries have been reported, "except for the minor scrapes and bruises firefighters have gotten," he said. Government officials and various agency leaders will gather Saturday for planning and strategy meetings, Bunstock said. 
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