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Western Fires in the U.S. Still Blazing
Across the West, overworked and overwhelmed fire crews are battling blazes that ignite just as older fires are brought under control.Sixty-six major fires were active Tuesday and had blackened 866,000 acres in Arizona, California,Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming,according to the National Interagency Fire Center. A 5,000-acre wildfire that closed Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado for the second time this summer was 40% contained by evening, a park spokesman said. Full containment is predicted for 6 p.m. Friday. In the Bitterroot Valley, which stretches about 80 miles from Missoula south to the Idaho state line, fires had destroyed at least 73 buildings, including 51 homes and cabins.
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