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.

South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette along with other states and local officials, visited Carolina Forest neighborhoods to speak with residents and first responders still fighting a now over 2,

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.