The State - News from Sept. 14, 1986

Nearly 200 of the 1,100 firefighters battling a wildfire in a remote canyon in the Sierra National Forest east of Fresno have been pulled off the lines, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said. The blaze, caused by a cigarette discarded in a marijuana patch, has charred 6,750 acres of brush and light timber in the steep, rocky canyon in an area so remote that firefighters must be brought in and out by helicopter. Unless their efforts are thwarted by winds, firefighters expect to bring the fire under full control early this week.