Soldiers Deployed To Help On Wildfires In Northcentral Washington
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 Catastrophe PropertyAbout 550 soldiers from Fort Lewis are being sent to fires burning 83,436 acres in northcentral Washington. Soldiers boarded buses Monday headed for two large fires burning between Winthrop and Conconully in the remote Chewuch Valley. A shortage of local firefighting crews and unfavorable weather forecasts prompted the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, to request help last week. Soldiers are expected to be deployed for about two months.
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