...lot of direct attack done in the last several days," she said.Friday brought less favorable conditions. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Doug Anderson predicted a "more active fire day" in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, where the...

...lines of a wilderness wildfire burning in northern Minnesota early Friday, after calling a truce overnight.U.S. Forest Service spokesman Doug Anderson says drier weather conditions, including temperatures in the 60s, could result in a "more...

...Obviously there have been people who want us to do all of this work more quickly,'' said Mark Van Every, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman. ''We feel it has been important to do the appropriate level of analysis, and we're being as efficient...

...Monday, and firefighters estimated it would take two weeks to completely surround, said Tony Diffenbaugh, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman. More than 1,500 firefighters set backfires, sprayed foam and cut brush as they battled the spreading...

...We did better than expected. There's still a threat to structures, but we'll keep working it," U.S. Forest Service spokesman Steve Segin said.

...the hours after the storm and the one who walked out and called from a hospital,'' said Gil Knight, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman working out of the so-called Incident Command Post in Ely. Aircraft and more than 80 people in ground crews...

...been spared, to return. The fire, which had consumed 44,323 acres, was 28 percent contained today, and U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jim Paxon refused to predict when full containment might be achieved. The weather was too unpredictable to...