Some allowed to go home, others evacuated as wildfires grow

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of residents forced to evacuate over the weekend as blazes in the Florida Panhandle threatened their houses have been allowed to return home. But residents in a neighboring county were evacuated Tuesday as three wildfires grew to more than 29,000 acres. Over the weekend, 1,100 residents were evacuated from homes in Bay County, Florida, an area where tons of destroyed trees from Hurricane Michael three years ago have fueled the fires. But officials gave the approval Monday for about 600 residents to return after one of the fires was mostly contained.