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• Aircraft take flight for Day 2 of air show
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels and numerous other vintage and modern jets return to the skies over Sioux Falls Sunday for Day 2 of the Sioux Falls Airshow.
• Wing Commander Col. Russ Walz says the event is free, which provides a great opportunity for the Sioux Falls National Guard to say "Thanks" to the community.
• The show, which is put on about every three years, also features vintage B-25 and P-51s, the Guard's F-16s, the Marine Corps' AV-8 Harrier and the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor.
• Crowds as high as 165,000 are expected to attend during the two-day event at the Guard base.
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Authorities focus on 2 large western SD wildfires
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• ROSEBUD, S.D. (AP) -- Officials in western South Dakota say personnel and equipment is spread thin among numerous wildfires in the region, but they're focusing on a pair of large fires near Pringle and on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
• Firefighters were battling a series of wildfires Saturday on the Rosebud reservation, dubbed the Long Horn Complex. About 200 firefighters were on the scene Saturday morning and a helicopter was making water drops, Fire Information Officer Beth Hermanson said.
• "We're ordering some more air resources," Hermanson said. "Those resources are starting to get pretty tight right now with all the fires across the region."
• The Myrtle fire, about a mile east of Pringle in the Black Hills, had grown from 7,000 acres Friday to more than 9,000 acres Saturday, or about 14 square miles. New evacuation orders were posted Friday for 242 homes, following an earlier alert to 33 residents.
• The fire was 15 percent contained, and an increase in relative humidity was helping to reduce fire intensity, Fire Information Officer Hollie Delmedico said Saturday.
• "We're trying to get it contained," Delmedico said. "Our main concern is firefighter and public safety."
• About 250 personnel, with the help of six helicopters, were fighting the Myrtle Fire, which started on Thursday afternoon. The fire has shut down several roads and forced the closure of Wind Cave National Park.
• "People are still arriving to help" fight the fire, Delmedico said.
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