Firefighters Battle Blaze; 7 Homes Are Burned
A huge cloud of brown smoke loomed over the town of Madras as firefighters fought house-to-house against a blaze that had already destroyed seven homes.
Crews in the remote subdivision of Three Rivers managed to save most structures in the evacuated 200-home development, dousing them in water and fire retardant and clearing brush and trees, said David Widmark, spokesman for the Northwest Fire Coordination Center.
There was no estimate for containment of the 16,000-acre blaze burning about 100 miles southeast of Portland.
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