UPDATE: McDowell County lifts wildfire evacuation order with half of blaze contained Officials said in their 8 p.m. update that the wildfire burning in the Crooked Creek community in McDowell ...

About 600 feet of lines were cut and taken in one area. Elsewhere, $5,000 worth of fiber optic cable was taken.

The McDowell County Sheriff's Office said two arrests were made for theft and vandalism of utility lines in McDowell County ...

Multiple wildfires continue to burn in Western North Carolina and the South Carolina ... N.C. Forest Service and Haywood County worked together to conduct defensive burning around the Crawford Creek ...

Wildfires have been burning in Western North Carolina since March 19 ... The worst fires in the region are in Polk County, the Black Cove Complex Fire and the Deep Woods Fire, which have combined ...