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NATION, Page 27American NotesTHE WESTGone to Blazes
Scorching temperatures, dry lightning storms and little rain
have incinerated much of the West again this year. "At one point
we had 43 major fires going simultaneously," said Arnold Hartigan
of Idaho's Boise Interagency Fire Center, the nation's wildfire
command post. Idaho has had 18 major fires burning across 187,000
acres, while Oregon had nine on 54,000 acres. California had two
major fires that burned 23,000 acres, and Utah had one big blaze
on 1,700 acres.
The Lowman fire, 75 miles northeast of Boise, destroyed 25
houses and businesses, including a resort lodge. Idaho Governor
Cecil Andrus declared an extreme emergency to call in more than 300
National Guardsmen to help 9,000 fire fighters battling to control
the burning land. Although the fires are not quite as bad as last
year's, 462 million board feet of timber have been destroyed in the
Boise National Forest alone.