Western Fires

Wildfires also have burned about 264,500 acres across the other Western states:

* WASHINGTON: Wind picked up Monday, giving 3,000 firefighters new cause for worry as they braced for new fires around Spokane. Thirty-four major fires have blackened about 43,000 acres in the area since last week. More than 100 homes were destroyed last week and one person was killed.

* OREGON: Firefighters battling an 8,800-acre blaze in the Cascade Mountains worried that an approaching cold front could bring high wind. More than 1,000 firefighters were battling the blaze in the Willamette National Forest east of Eugene. The fire was 80% contained.

* COLORADO: Eighty firefighters doused hot spots Monday at the sites of two western Colorado wilderness fires that burned more than 600 acres during the weekend. The worst of the fires, in the Uncompaghre National Forest, 35 miles south of Grand Junction, burned 450 acres in three days.

* IDAHO: One death was reported in fires that blackened about 5,000 acres last week. At least four homes and several cabins were destroyed in northern Idaho.

* MONTANA: About 4,000 firefighters are battling a dozen fires that have burned about 200,000 acres. The biggest fires were burning in the Judith Mountains about five miles north of Lewistown in central Montana and in the Purcell Mountains in the state’s northeast corner.

* WYOMING: Firefighters appeared to have the upper hand on a 7,100-acre fire in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in western Wyoming. The fire was 80% contained along its southern, western and eastern flanks.