Wildfire at State Park set by illegal camper
A firefighter uses a drip torch to make a fire line Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, while battling the Legion Lake Fire in Custer State Park in South Dakota. A wildfire is spreading and forcing evacuations in Custer State Park in the Black Hills of southwest South Dakota. (Jim Holland/Rapid City Journal via AP)
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CUSTER, S.D. (AP) — A spreading wildfire has destroyed a building in Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Lydia Austin, a park spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the fire hare on the scene. TEST ghere
The blaze erupted Monday during dry, warm weather. Austin says the cause is under investigation.
Custer State Park features hills with ponderosa pine and prairie. Austin says wildlife naturally moves away from fire.
The park is closed as well as roads in and out of it.
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