'We're not really out of the woods yet': Pennsylvania wildfires surge as drought rewrites fire season

'We're not really out of the woods yet': Pennsylvania wildfires surge as drought rewrites fire season

Pennsylvania's wildfire season is shifting, and officials say drought, erratic rainfall, and increasingly dry forest fuels are driving that change.  As the Republican Herald reported, three May 4 brush fires near Vulcan Hill in Mahanoy City burned roughly 15 to 17 acres, and forestry responders and local fire departments said the conditions behind that blaze are becoming more common statewide. Pennsylvania's changing wildfire season reflects a g…