Firefighters have spent more than 48 hours battling the state's biggest blaze, which has damaged about 50 homes and scorched 3,500 acres (1,400 hectares), or about 5 1/2 square miles (14 square kilometers).
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face off in West Virginia on Tuesday in the state-by-state process to determine the party's nominee for the November election.
Obama made only a brief push on Monday in West Virginia, one of six remaining Democratic contests. Clinton is expected to easily capture the state, where Obama lacks the solid black vote that helped him win elsewhere.
Between 1.2 and 1.9 million people have been left clinging to survival in Myanmar's cyclone-hit where delays by the military government in admitting large-scale aid are threatening a massive humanitarian disaster.
As the president prepares to leave Tuesday for a Mideast trip, his second in four months, he is trading that unfailingly upbeat tone for something a bit more reserved.
Local staff for international relief agencies are stretched to breaking point and facing tighter restrictions on their ability to deliver foreign aid flowing in to 1.5 million survivors facing hunger and disease.
The death toll from the disaster rose Tuesday to nearly 12,000 with thousands more missing. Rain was impeding efforts and a group of paratroopers called off a mission to the area due to heavy storms.
A girl died of the disease on Thursday, while one child died in southern Hainan province and three died in southern Guangdong. Close to 27,500 cases of the disease had been reported in China as of last Friday.
A military C-130 cargo plane packed with supplies left a Thai air force base Monday and landed in Myanmar's biggest city Yangon. Two more air shipments are scheduled to land Tuesday.
