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State-wide burn ban declared as fires burn north of Omaha

By: Molly Hudson , Katrina Markel

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UPDATE 6:45 p.m.

Wildfires have been igniting this week in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Gov. Jim Pillen declared a statewide burn ban on all open burns starting on Thursday and lasting until midnight on Sunday.

3 News Now reporter Molly Hudson and photojournalist Wade Lux were atop a hill in Hummel Park looking down on a blaze near N.P. Dodge Park in northern Douglas County. Eight agencies were fighting the fire, says NEMA, in order to keep it out of N.P. Dodge Park.

A local farmer was seen discing the field to create fire break and a path for fire crews. The fire was still burning, but diminished, by 6 p.m. on Thursday evening.

Thursday the smoke was visible by satellite.