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OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Two air tankers on Sunday afternoon dropped loads of fire retardant on a growing wilderness fire on Griff Peak above Port Angeles.
By nightfall Sunday, the smoky fire had spread to 125 acres, more than doubling its size in just 24 hours.
The aircraft from the U.S. Forest Service air tanker base in Moses Lake dropped loads of retardant along the fire’s western confinement line, park spokeswoman Barb Maynes said.
“Monitors on the site said the fire retardant was very effective,” she said.
A helicopter was dropping 100-gallon buckets of water scooped up from Lake Mills and dropped along the northern confinement line, she said.
The helicopter was expected to use a 300-gallon bucket today.
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The rest of the story appears in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.