Hundreds of people have been asked to leave their homes in North Carolina and South Carolina as a half-dozen large fires are burning in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

At least a half-dozen large wildfires continue to burn in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina.

A large wildfire in the South Carolina mountains has doubled in size on each of the last three days. Firefighters battling the Table Rock Mountain fire have concentrated on saving lives and property by digging fire breaks that push the blaze north through undeveloped land on the Pickens County ridges near the North Carolina state line,