Nation IN BRIEF : ALASKA : Disaster Officials Tour Wildfire Site

Federal disaster officials toured the site of a week-old Big Lake-area wildfire as cool, damp weather helped contain the blaze that burned more than 37,000 acres and caused nearly $10 million in damage. Firefighters had contained 60% of the blaze. The fire destroyed or damaged more than 360 buildings at a cost of nearly $10 million, officials in Houston, Alaska, said. In Allentown, Ariz., a 3-day-old brush fire was mostly contained after charring almost 2,400 acres of the Navajo Nation. In New Mexico, a wildfire grew to 3,500 acres near the Bosque del Apache National Refuge.