OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — No growth was reported Tuesday in the four wildfires in Olympic National Park.
Obstruction Point Road was reopened to the public Monday morning. It had been closed Friday because of thick smoke from the Cox Valley Fire, which is 12 miles south of Port Angeles near PJ Lake, some 2½ miles northeast of the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center.
Lisa Wilkolak, fire information officer, reported that the Cox Valley Fire remained at 10 acres; the Haynes Fire, 20 miles south of Port Angeles on a ridge line between the Lost River and Hayes River, remained at 150 acres; the Godkin Fire, 25 miles south of Port Angeles along the Elwha River, had stayed at 90 ares; and the Ignar Creek Fire, about 22 miles northeast of Lake Quinault, remained at a half-acre.
Weather, humidity
Cooler weather and higher humidity helped dampen the fires over the weekend, she has said.
Some 250 acres of the nearly million-acre park are smoldering or in flames, the fires ignited by lightning strikes during a July 21 storm, which brought heavy rain and more than 400 lightning strikes to the Olympic Mountains.
About 35 fire personnel were fighting the fires.
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