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A lightning-sparked fire that has been burning near Mount Adams is 30 percent contained.
A lightning-sparked fire that has been burning near Mount Adams is 30 percent contained.
The Cold Springs fire has burned 12 square miles, or 7,933 acres, about 10 miles northeast of Trout Lake in Washington's south Cascades. The fire is burning in timber in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and on the Yakama Indian Reservation.
More than 1,000 firefighters are on the scene.
The Badger Mountain complex north of Wenatchee is 98 percent contained at 15,023 acres, or more than 23 square miles. East of Spokane, the Spokane Valley fire is 90 percent contained. That fire has burned 1,006 acres and destroyed 11 homes.
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