The Nation - News from Aug. 28, 1986
The U.S. Forest Service said firefighters had contained the last of thousands of August blazes that destroyed timber and wilderness in nine Western states. Forest Service spokesman Jim Sorenson announced containment of the 18,000-acre Anderson fire in southwest Idaho, but a forecast of a possible lighting storm kept six crews at the Crouch fire camp, and 540 firefighters worked to widen a 44-mile line around the blaze. A total of 6,895 forest and range fires have scorched 742,000 acres since Aug. 2.
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