WASHINGTON - Northwest wildfires spark evacuations

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Northwest wildfires spark

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Tuesday,

August 22, 2006; Posted: 8:37 p.m. EDT (00:37 GMT)

 

 

DAYTON, Washington (AP) --

Nursing home residents were evacuated Tuesday when smoke from a nearby

wildfire, one of several started by lightning, rolled across Washington.

Firefighters also faced new blazes in parts of Idaho and Oregon.

More than 75 firefighters were assigned Tuesday to the blaze

outside Dayton, Washington, which had raced across 2,500 acres -- nearly 4 square miles --

of trees, brush and wheat fields since being ignited late Monday, said Ted

Paterson, information officer for the Columbia County Emergency Operations Center.

South of Dayton, in eastern Washington, about 80 residents

along the Touchet River were urged to leave their homes and 35 residents of a nursing

home were evacuated because of concern about the smoke, Paterson said.

No structures had burned and no injuries were reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/22/wildfires.ap/index.html

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