Crews encircle wildfire on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota

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A wildfire has burned about 750 acres of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Officials said Tuesday that crews have encircled much of the fire and it no longer is growing. The fire was reported Friday evening on the west side of the reservation in southwest South Dakota.

WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — A wildfire has burned about 750 acres of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota , but crews have encircled much of the fire and it no longer is growing, officials said Tuesday.

Jon Siedschlaw, deputy director of Oglala Sioux Tribe Emergency Management, said the fire was still burning inside a line dug with heavy equipment. No homes or other structures have burned, he said.The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Pine Ridge Agency, which is leading the firefighting effort, didn’t respond to inquiries from The Associated Press about the blaze, but in a Facebook post the agency said Monday evening that the fire was 80% contained.

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