ENTIAT (AP) — A wildfire burning on about 34 square miles of grass, brush and timber near the Columbia River in central Washington did not grow on Saturday, but officials worry that storms that were forecast to arrive Sunday evening could cause explosive growth.
The Mills Canyon Fire, burning near Entiat, was 25 percent contained on Sunday, said spokesman Vladimir Steblina of the Pacific Northwest Incident Management Team.
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