Crews continued Monday to try to extinguish a small fire burning since Sunday night near Carney Lake just past Pine Creek in Dickinson County.

The fire was first reported about 8:30 p.m. Sunday along Carney Lake Road roughly 14 miles northeast of Iron Mountain, according to a Michigan Department of Natural Resources news release.

The cause is still being investigated, but the region already was under a Red Flag Warning for fire danger through 9 p.m. Monday due to the hot, dry and windy conditions.

“Firefighters were battling the fire last night over a rock outcropping, in an area of mixed hardwoods and large pines,” said Keith Murphy, a DNR fire specialist at the agency’s Incident Coordination Center in Harvey. About 5 to 6 acres had been burned as of Monday afternoon.

Nearly three dozen firefighters were working on the fire Monday, including a 20-person Hot Shot crew based in the Idaho panhandle and a Type I helicopter on loan from the U.S. Forest Service, the news release states.

DNR equipment at the fire includes two bulldozers, three fire engines and a high-volume pump that was pulling water from Pine Creek to battle the blaze.

Also enlisted in the effort was a Michigan State Police helicopter crew that dumped 320-gallon buckets of water on the fire, a dozen DNR firefighters and two members of the Norway Fire Department.

The DNR urges the public to avoid the area. A temporary flight restriction is in place as well that prohibits drone flights and private aircraft.

Across the U.P. and the rest of Michigan, fire danger today is characterized as either high, very high or extreme.

The extreme fire danger — heightened by a combination of high temperatures, dry conditions, gusting winds and low humidity — is reported from parts or all of Gogebic, Ontonagon, Houghton, Iron, Dickinson, Menominee and Delta counties.

“Please match the extreme fire conditions with an extreme use of caution with any source of fire,” said John Pepin, DNR deputy public information officer in Marquette. “The largest proportion of wildfires are caused by human-related activities.

For more information on fire safety tips, fire statistics and more, go to Michigan.gov/FireManagement.