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Eye On Boise

Wildfire contained after dramatic fight

That was a pretty dramatic fight against the Eagle wildfire last night, with planes dropping fire retardant, helicopters dipping and dumping water buckets, crews working on the ground, smoke billowing and winds shifting and gusting. The fire was fully contained by mid-evening after nearly 5,000 acres burned; four homes were lost, but there were no injuries. The smoke even cleared out over Boise as evening settled in. But it's a sign of what's to come as the fire season gets under way; lightning touched off the blaze, which went whipping through dry sage and brush that's extra-thick after this year's cool, wet spring.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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