The Nation - News from April 9, 1985

Wildfires that stretched in a 25-mile line, consuming 92,500 acres of coastal brushlands and destroying 25 buildings, were “mostly contained,” a North Carolina forestry official said. The outbreak in three eastern North Carolina counties “still poses a threat to unburned adjacent areas,” a state Forest Service spokesman said. Meanwhile, damage from a week of fires across North Carolina climbed toward $5 million, officials said.