SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A fast-growing blaze in southwestern South Dakota killed one person and destroyed 20 homes Sunday, while hundreds of people evacuated homes in the path of a fire in Washington state.
In Nevada, about 1,500 evacuees were allowed home hours after a 39-square-mile wildfire burned into the northern town of Winnemucca, fire officials said Sunday. Meanwhile, more than 200 people were allowed to return to a town in California's dry Sierra Nevada range.
Residents of about 50 homes had fled a wildfire near Hot Springs, S.D., that also injured two firefighters, state and federal officials said. An area of roughly 8 square miles has burned since the fire started Saturday.
The person killed was identified only as a civilian, either a homeowner or visitor to the tourist area on the edge of the scenic Black Hills.
"This is obviously someone who was not part of the firefighting effort," said Gary Chancey, spokesman for Northern Great Plains Joint Information Center in Rapid City.
