Progress made on Warm Springs fire

Published 9:02 am Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Firefighters continued to make progress Tuesday toward corralling a large wildfire burning on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.

Containment of the County Line 2 Fire was up to 70 percent, according to an evening update on InciWeb, the federal incident information system. Since starting Aug. 12 the fire has burned 65,300 acres, or more than 101 square miles.

More on than 550 firefighters remain on the fire, which is expected to be contained Friday.

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