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Live updates: Wildfires in Minnesota

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Authorities on Friday estimated the summer fires have burned some 77,000 acres so far. As in prior briefings, they made it clear they expect to be fighting wildfires through the fall and that the work may not end until it snows.

a man drains water from the floats of a floatplane parked on a lake

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Paul Lundgren of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources provides wildfire updates 

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A man in a dark blue polo shirt stands in front of a wall of maps.

A group of women walk under a theater marquis that reads, "Thank you firefighters."

Wildfire updates are provided at a press conference

‘Still very extreme’: Officials see little reprieve as wildfires burn across NE Minnesota

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