world news - 30.07.2007
Fire spreads nearly unchecked outside national park in Montana
Hot, dry and windy weather helped a wildfire near
Glacier National Park in Montana grow to roughly 5,000 acres (2,023
hectares) and continue to threaten an evacuated lodge.
The blaze had grown from 1,000 acres (404.7 hectares) a day earlier and
was just 2 percent contained, fire information officer Dale Warriner
said Sunday. The fire was running into heavy timber.
Elsewhere, a dozen homes were ordered evacuated Sunday in California's
Santa Barbara County as a wildfire spread across 1,500 new acres (607
hectares), continuing a new growth spurt for the nearly month-old
blaze.
Residents of another 200 homes were told to be prepared to flee at
short notice,
Warm and very dry weather during the night allowed the fire to burn
through old, heavy trees in the Los Padres National Forest on its
uncontained southeast side, fire spokeswoman Juanita Freel said. The
blaze had charred about 32,000 acres (12,950.2 hectares) since it
started July 4 and was 70 percent contained Sunday.
A 1,030-square-mile (266,774-hectare) fire in southern Idaho and
northern Nevada was 86 percent contained and was near full containment,
officials said.
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