Firefighters beating back county fires
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August 04, 2009 - 05:25 AM
Last Updated: August 04, 2009 - 09:49 AM

ROCKPORT — There are 15 small fires burning on the Skagit County side of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. But fire officials say they’re making progress on fighting them.

The biggest fire in Skagit County is the Nervous Bride fire — named after a nearby creek. The four-acre fire is about six miles southeast of Rockport, said Koshare Lomnicki, a fire spokeswoman said.

Firefighters have created a line around the fire and dropped water on it Monday with a helicopter.

Three of the Skagit County fires are in the wilderness area and are being monitored, but left to burn. The others all have firefighters working to fight them.

The 30 wildfires burning in the Darrington area total 52 acres and are 50 percent contained. The largest fire is the 20-acre Mount Bullen Fire southwest of Darrington.

More than 300 firefighters and three helicopters are fighting the fires.





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This is good information for the Skagit community to have available from its ‘commununity’ newspaper.  It would have been nice to have…

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