Wind Whips Up Range Fire Near Kuna

Thu., Aug. 1, 1996

Associated Press

Just when fire bosses were about to declare a range fire in southwestern Idaho controlled Wednesday afternoon, it made another run.

The Coyote Butte fire moved to 15,000 acres, a day after it was started by lightning.

Bureau of Land Management spokesman Randy Eardley said the fire was burning mainly within areas previously blackened by flames. BLM fire bosses still hoped for containment later Wednesday.

Brisk winds helped push the fire over another 5,000 acres of open range on Wednesday.

Eardley said the fire, the second in the same area south of Kuna in a year, burned critical habitat in the Snake River Birds Of Prey National Conservation Area.

The fire burned just east and south of the area where two Kuna firefighters died last year when a range fire overtook their water truck.

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