Evacuation lifted for South Dakota towns near wildfire
(WorldNews Environment)

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Lucia Roda stood in her backyard early Wednesday morning, watching flames shoot up in the dark for each tree a spreading western South Dakota wildfire engulfed on the hills not far from the Spanish mustang preserve she manages. Roda’s family got an early morning pre-evacuation notice suggesting they leave their home and the conservancy in Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, but they decided to remain rather than chance moving 34 horses in the dark. The family took the “calculated risk� to wait until light so it would be safer if the horses had to be transported, Roda said. “Last night at about three in the morning, it was a little hairy and a little...