Homes Evacuated as Wildfire Spreads
About 20 houses were evacuated in a remote area of south-central Washington and officials were concerned about others as a wildfire spread rapidly in nearby timber.
The fire near Tampico burned 1,200 acres Sunday, up from 300 to 500 acres the day before, said David Widmark, spokesman for the Northwest Interagency Coordinating Center in Portland, Ore.
In southern Arizona, where firefighters have been battling a fire on Mount Lemmon since mid-June, a second night of rain helped crews get closer to containing the wildfire.
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