Rain Snow Help Crews Contain Fires
From Times Wire Reports
Rain and even snow helped firefighters make major progress to contain Western wildfiresalthough a blaze sparked by lightning forced the evacuatindex terms National Monument in northeastern Wyoming because a 300-acre fire was burning about 2 1 1/2 miles away, officials said. In Montana, rain and snow made steep terrain slippery and hazardous for firefighters. Crews stopped digging fire lines at a 20,000-acre blaze on the Flathead Indian Reservation because of the wet rocks and mud.
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