Evacuations, closures grow as northern Minnesota fire expands

ISABELLA, Minn. – Mark and Laura Hochhalter scanned the horizon from the edge of Greenwood Lake on Monday afternoon as thick, acrid smoke billowed across the sky.

The Stacy, Minn., couple has a remote cabin a few miles west of the lake in the middle of the Superior National Forest, and they drove up fearing that it was in the path of the fast-moving blaze, measured at 2,000 acres by Monday evening.

"It looks like it's moving away, but that can turn overnight," Laura Hochhalter said.

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