OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Precipitation in Olympic National Park has finally extinguished a wildfire that had been burning since May.
The Peninsula Daily News reports that park fire operations specialist Ty Crowe said Wednesday that the fire in the Queets River drainage known as the Paradise fire was finally out after a series of storms that dropped several feet of rain.
The fire burned more than 4 square miles of rainforest trees and deep duff as of the last update in September and is the largest in the park’s history. A final estimate of the burned area has not been released.
The Queets River valley is 12 miles inside the park border.
