Monday's rain is expected to help crews contain the 2,059-acre wildfire that has burned in Carolina Forest for nearly 10 days, state and local officials said.

Severe storms didn't put out Carolina Forest's 2,000-acre wildfire, but officials expressed hope that the desperately-needed rain will help them contain it.

Horry County firefighters and South Carolina Forestry Commission are working to extinguish a more than 2,000-acre wildfire that has burned for seven days in the Myrtle Beach area.

Regional and state fire rescue crews on Monday continued to battle the Carolina Forest-area wildfires, according to Horry County Fire Rescue.

With a soaking rain in the Myrtle Beach area's forecast, out-of-town firefighters battling the Carolina Forest wildfire will start to return home this weekend.

The massive Carolina Forest wildfire remains over halfway contained after more than a week.

The massive Carolina Forest wildfire remains over halfway contained going into day nine of its burn. FIRST ALERT | Clouds build today, showers and downpours ahead for Monday HCFR said crews will continue to monitor and patrol the lines in the northeastern area of the fire,