Fire crews have repeatedly had to abandon fire lines as the flames moved north. Myslivy says crews are trying to build another line using a prescribed burn near Lowman.
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The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
A western Montana wildfire grew overnight to 11 square miles in the Bitterroot National Forest. Officials said Monday night better mapping allowed them to determine the fire had burned significantly more acreage than previously thought.
The Rail fire has grown from an estimated 700 acres on Monday to 2,043 acres on Tuesday, according to the Incident Information System.
The Soberanes Fire in Big Sur is the result of high humidity and low temperatures in Central California.
The $60,000 yurt is a round, tent-like structure with a dome roof and plastic skin.
Authorities said Tuesday that firefighters increased containment to 30 percent.
A fast-moving fire in the Bitterroot National Forest started Sunday and in just a few hours it has burned homes, evacuated about 500 residents and has charred almost 5.5 square miles by Monday.
Authorities said firefighters increased containment to 30 percent. Residents of about 500 homes southwest of Hamilton were evacuated or warned to be ready to leave.
Federal and tribal officials reported progress Wednesday battling two large wildfires pushed by dry gusty winds through remote rangeland and rugged mountain canyons in northwestern Nevada.
Residents of the rural area surrounded by rolling hills told reporters they scrambled to evacuate with their animals as the wind-driven blaze swept through dry slopes.
State firefighting resources were joining Columbia Basin firefighters to help work to contain the wildland fire.
Another, farther north near Poodle Mountain, was 80 percent contained but has burned about 10 square miles in a wilderness study area.
No one has been injured, but at least three dozen homes and RVs have been evacuated. The Pacific Crest Trail remains closed from Dutton Creek Camp north to the trail’s parking lot on North Entrance Road. Authorities say some fences were damaged, but no homes have been lost. Matt Burks, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service, has said the fire is located in a remote area of eastern OR about 10 miles southwest of the small town of Unity.
The blaze has scorched about 273 square miles of brush and grass since it started Saturday on the U.S. Army’s Yakima Training Center. The evacuation notice was upgraded to a Level 3, which indicated people in the area were in immediate danger and needed to evacuate their homes as soon as possible, about 4:25 p.m. for all homes in the Road 10 and Road H Northeast area.
In southwest Wyoming, a fire that has burned about 2 square miles near the Utah border is now 36 percent contained.
A new wildfire in central Washington state has prompted the immediate evacuation of about two dozen homes.
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Tod McKay, spokesman for the Bitterroot National Forest, walks by a burned truck and shop at Dave Campbell’s home in Judd Creek Hollow, Tuesday morning, August 2, 2016, in Hamilton, Mont.
