The Nation - News from July 24, 1987
Hot winds whipped a wildfire over a Colorado mountain at the rate of nearly three acres a minute, chasing 20 families from their cabins, and firefighters battled to contain the inferno within trenches they gouged in rugged terrain. By midday, with temperatures climbin1730177390broken around 40% of the 550-acre fire at Redlands Mesa. In southern Oregon, cooling rains helped firefighters struggling against a stubborn 10,300-acre forest fire that killed two loggers last week.
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