Wet conditions settled over the region and provided relief for personnel addressing the Cowlitz Complex Fire, but it wasn’t enough to extinguish any of its dozens of burns.
Jared Hohn, incident commander for the Rocky Mountain Area Complex management team, reported early Friday that the fires will likely persist for a few months until the seasons change.
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