Multiple wildfires were actively burning Wednesday in North and South Carolina, where a blaze that erupted over the weekend forced evacuations and a state of emergency. The largest of them, in the Carolina Forest area near Myrtle Beach,

The combination of dry fuels, limited rainfall, and very low humidity will lead to an elevated risk of adverse fire behavior today,” officials at the U.S. Forest Service’s National Forests in North Carolina cautioned in a post on Facebook.