SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY, MI— Crews are working to contain a 200-acre wildfire in Schoolcraft County.
Officials with the DNR say lightning likely started the Creighton Swamp Fire north of M-28 on Saturday. It’s burning in a remote area east of County Road 454.
A drone with an infrared camera was deployed Tuesday to help delineate the full extent of the blaze and identify areas that may be concealing fire in the subsoils.
No structures have been threatened and no injuries are reported.
The DNR has had around 25 firefighters battling the fire, with tracked DNR wetland power bully engines from Gwinn and Newberry and a tractor plow from Shingleton. A DNR pilot has surveyed the blaze from overhead.
Four Seney National Wildlife Refuge firefighters and a DNR crew from Gladwin have also been working on the wildfire using amphibious marsh buggies called “marsh masters.”
