Brush fire burns overnight in Lackawanna County

LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Fire crews in Lackawanna County are working to contain a large brush fire near Montage Mountain.

Authorities say a medical helicopter reported the fire just before midnight on Saturday

Scranton firefighters responded overnight with other nearby crews.

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Officials say the fire is in a very remote area.

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MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine authorities issued an urgent appeal on Saturday for residents in low-lying areas and coastal towns to move to safety as super typhoon Man-Yi gained strength on its approach towards the country's main Luzon island. Man-Yi, the sixth tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines in a month, intensified with maximum sustained winds reaching 195 kph (121 mph) and gusts up to 240 kph, according to state weather agency PAGASA. This prompted it to raise its storm alert to its highest level for the provinces of Catanduanes and Camarines Sur in the central Bicol region.

A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month. Typhoon Man-yi slammed into the eastern island province of Catanduanes on Saturday night with sustained winds of up to 195 kilometers (125 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph). There were no immediate reports of casualties from the typhoon, which was forecast to blow northwestward on Sunday across northern Luzon, the archipelago's most populous region.

As the third named storm to emerge during November, Tropical Storm Sara serves as a reminder that the Atlantic hurricane season hasn't quite ended. Sara formed in the western Caribbean Sea before making landfall Thursday on the northern coast of Honduras, dumping torrential rains in a slow weekend crawl across parts of Central America. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm could dump up to 40 inches (101.6 centimeters) of rain in some areas and is expected to move over Belize Sunday before dissipating over the Yucatan Peninsula early Monday.

Satellite imagery shows Tropical Storm Sara hugging Central America on Friday, November 15, as it dropped heavy rain on Honduras.As of Friday morning, the storm was located approximately 30 miles south-southwest of Isla Guanaja and was carrying maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).The system was expected to bring as much as 35 inches of rain to northern Honduras through early next week, leading to "widespread areas of life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides, especially along and near the Sierra La Esperanza," the NHC said. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA via Storyful

Windy conditions renewed a wildfire that escaped a containment line and prompted emergency officials to enact a voluntary evacuation plan for a small number of houses in a community near the New York-New Jersey border on Saturday. The voluntary evacuation enacted out of "an abundance of caution" impacted about 165 houses in Warwick, New York, as firefighters continued working to tame the Jennings Creek blaze, New York Parks Department spokesman Jeff Wernick said in an email Saturday night. A local school was being used as a shelter for residents in need of one, New York State Police Troop F said in a statement.