Weather aids 3 Sisters fire

Cooler temperatures Thursday allowed firefighters to make progress in battling the 3 Sisters wildfire burning two miles northwest of Bayview in Bonner County.

By Friday afternoon, the blaze, which was first reported Tuesday, covered 264 acres and was 30 percent contained.

An Idaho Department of Lands incident management team is focusing firefighting operations on preventing the fire from spreading toward private land and timber resources.

There are no structures threatened by the fire at this time, but some are within a mile of it. No evacuations had been recommended as of Friday.

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