NEW ORLEANS — A smoky wildfire continues to burn in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is using a helicopter to drop water on the burning swamp land.
"We got some pretty extreme fire behavior going on right now, some 20-foot flame links at times the wind is kind of going up and down and changing the fire behavior," officials said.
So far, the fire has consumed about 75-100 acres of mostly marsh grass. Officials say it could take several more days to extinguish.
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