Well, here's something we can all be thankful for tomorrow.

The Kentucky wildfires that prompted a state of emergency earlier this month are now under control.

Kentucky's Division of Forestry says recent rain helped firefighters tame the flames.

Three weeks after wildfires began to ignite in eastern Kentucky, firefighters say there are no more threats on the ground.

The recent rains we had were pretty significant and really helped tamp down on the fires we had.

And then as well, our relative humidities were exceptionally low.

We did have a pretty extended drought period leading to the beginning of November, kind of regionally.

We were about two inches shy of rain for our normal.

And so the recent rains have really helped to boost the humidities which bring our fire activity down.

The Kentucky Division of Forestry has now contained or controlled more than 200 fires.

So when we talk about contained fires, those are fires that are burning, that we've established containment lines, fire lines around and then controlled by air to those that we established, fire lines around.

And they're either just smoldering out or have gone out entire here in the east, we have a lot of leaf litter, forest fires and then also grass plants burn.

And so we go through and we take away the fuel for the fire to burn.

And so that fire line is us either physically scratching away with fire rigs using leaf blowers.

Bulldozers are exceptionally handy tools to create nice wide lines.

And so we take all that tool away from the fire and then we'll use a backfire.

So using fire to fight fire and will burn the fuel inward towards the active fire to remove those additional fuel.

Still, this is what the Division of Forestry says.

34,000 acres of woodlands now look like due to the fire.

Those are important natural resources that we want to conserve because they provide us a world of benefits.

So a lot of these areas have burned repeatedly over time in an uncontrolled manner, and that can lead to a degradation of the woodlands.

And so we want to make sure that we're being very intentional in our management of the woods and our application of fire.

Fire can be a good resource, but we want to make sure that it's done correctly.

Firefighters from around the country who helped out are on their way home for Thanksgiving.

So we had over 340 firefighters at our height.

We pulled firefighters in from states like Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington State, Florida, Arkansas, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas.

Kentucky.

Governor Andy Beshear yesterday said, quote, It has been a long three weeks for Kentucky's firefighters and those across the nation who came to our aid.

Kentucky's fall forest fire season continues until December 15th.

That means statewide, no one should be burning anything near a forest or brush, at least during daylight hours.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.

Law enforcement is still looking for anyone that may be behind some of these wildfires.

The Kentucky Division of Forestry says arson or careless burning are to blame.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is investigating.