Roughly 250 acres burned in Allegan County wildfire

CLYDE TOWNSHIP (WOOD-AM) - Around 250 acres has been burned in an Allegan County wildfire.

It started in the Allegan State Game Area near the Ely Lake campground in Clyde Township yesterday afternoon.

A cause is not yet known, but a red flag warning was posted at the time and burning was prohibited in the area.

"We've got 30 mile-per-hour winds," Paul Rogers, a fire prevention specialist with Michigan Department of Natural Resources, told WOOD-TV. "The fires, they just race through these fields."

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