Bear Cub Saved From Ravaging Wildfires

Like the original Smokey Bear, a small cub has emerged burned but alive from the wildfires that have charred forests and range land across Montana. The cub, apparently orphaned and weighing only about 20 pounds, was in a veterinary clinic being treated for burns on all four paws. In Montana, 30 fires had burned about 600,000 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. That accounts for almost half the 1.3 million acres scarred by 98 major fires in 11 states from Florida to Washington. .