The fires burning in the Boundary Water Canoe Area are mostly small, lightning-sparked blazes. A little rain Thursday didn't do much to help put them out. A small area of the BWCA wilderness and a hiking trail were closed. The biggest fire is the 50-acre Cummings Lake fire, which has not grown much in the last few days.

Edina's decision to convert was due to residents saying that fire pit smoke enters their homes, threatens their health and affects the environment. Opponents of the move fear the city may try to force a citywide ordinance for home fireplaces.

The Post Bulletin reports oil in a fryer caught fire early Saturday morning. Guests at the Days Inn, above the downtown restaurant, were forced to evacuate for about two hours. Fortunately no was injured.

No one was injured after a fire started in a resident's kitchen early Tuesday morning.

All 32 residents at the Saint George apartment building made it out safely, but it took more than 40 firefighters to battle the early Friday morning blaze. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. WCCO reports investigators are looking into the 93-year-old building's electrical wiring.

Crews were on the scene of a water main break on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday. City officials said part of the street was at risk of collapse and would remain closed overnight as a precautionary measure.

The Forest Service has closed some areas of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, where three new wildfires are burning. The largest is 75 acres. But crews are aggressively fighting another two-acre fire because it's near an area of dry timber that was part of the 1999 blowdown.