SENEY, MI (AP)-- Officials say a wildfire in the Seney National Wildlife Refuge that burned more than five square miles cost more than $600,000 to fight. Most of the cost is for aircraft used to dump water on the flames.
The U.S. Department of the Interior last week announced that the roughly 3,400-acre wildfire in Schoolcraft County was fully contained. It was ignited by lightning and first reported on May 21.
The Seney National Wildlife Refuge covers about 95,000 acres. The fire was in the northeastern corner, a mixture of forests and bogs.
