The Nation - News from July 28, 1985

Thousands of firefighters across the West and Northwest continued battling widespread blazes, some of which have been burning for more than a month. Among the major outbreaks were fires that were raging in the mountains of central Idaho and adjoining western Montana. A rash of lightning fires burned woods and grassland in South Dakota. A 1,700-acre fire burned out of control in Oregon, but crews in Washington surrounded a 750-acre blaze. In Idaho, a fire in Payette National Forest, just south of the main Salmon River, grew to 14,000 acres.