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Crews are fighting a small wildfire at a state park in northern Minnesota.

Fire crews are getting the upper hand on a northern Minnesota wildfire.

Crews are battling wildfires across northern Minnesota as dry conditions increase the fire danger.

The state Department of Natural Resources unintentionally sparked a wildfire this spring in Roseau County that burned 4,500 acres.

Officials have updated their damage figures from the wildfire that surrounded the northwestern Minnesota city town of Karlstad on three sides.

Some residents are being evacuated from Karlstad as a growing wildfire threatens the northwestern Minnesota town.

All wildfires in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northeastern Minnesota are contained, controlled or out. But the U.S. Forest Service says Saturday campfire restrictions remain for the entire wilderness area, and some lake and trail closures still are in effect.

The Superior National Forest has imposed campfire restrictions in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and closed some lakes east of Ely because of the fire danger.

A fire continues to slowly grow in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness northwest of Ely. A spokeswoman for the Superior National Forest said Tuesday the fire is now estimated to have burned across about 40 acres.

Ground crews are battling another wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness northwest of Ely. The Cummings Lake fire covers an estimated 20 acres. The area is filled with black spruce in a lowland area about 12 miles northwest of Ely.