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Five men and two women were in custody Friday night after an incident in which tribal officers were fired on and tribal, federal, state and local agents engaged in a 10-hour standoff at a home outside Redby, Minn., on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Tribal officers who responded to a shots-fired call just after 5 a.m. were fired on eight or nine times, apparently by an automatic or semi-automatic weapon, according to Bill Brunelle, Red Lake Department of Public Safety Law Enforcement Director. One officer hiding behind a pickup truck was hit...
The wildfires that struck northwest Minnesota have gone underground, igniting layers of peat that could burn well into the winter. More than 150 people were working Monday by hand, with fire trucks and with heavy equipment to try to contain the wildfire, which had grown from about 4,000 acres last week to 24,848 and was declared 30 percent contained, although it was partly burning underground, said Gil Knight, spokesman for the multiagency team working the fire north of Red Lake. That fire, as well a 1,400-acre fire near the city of Viking,...
