The Nation - News from Aug. 5, 1986
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More than 2,000 firefighters from across the Northwest used bulldozers, airplanes and helicopters to fight about 100 lightning-sparked blazes raging over nearly 100,000 acres of forest and rangeland in Oregon, Idaho and Washington. The biggest fires scorched 62,000 acres of Oregon’s sparsely populated south-central rangeland and 34,000 acres in southwestern Idaho. In Washington, about 300 firefighters worked to contain a 200-acre fire in the Okanogan National Forest.
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