Elite firefighters delivered to front lines of huge Washington state wildfire

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Helicopters delivered 100 elite firefighters to the front lines of the Farewell Creek wildfire on Friday, a milestone in trying to control the 31,000-hectare blaze. Five crews of Hotshots were using hand tools to dig firelines along the northwest face of the fire in the Pasayten Wilderness near the Canadian border in north-central Washington state. The crews will sleep inside the wilderness area for the next few days and supplies will be air-dropped to them, fire spokeswoman Christy Covington said.


Source: The Canadian Press... (http://www.firehall.com/cgi-bin/refer?url=http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=BD27A3B4-FDA8-4B61-BDEC-22E77BE0095B&s=54554880.5109323&linkid=93&parent=news)