Lincoln County competing with other locales for wildfire resources
Sam Hicks and Trevor Riding of the Great Basin Incident Management Team No. 5 brief the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners on efforts to contain the South Yaak and Burnt Peak fires on Aug. 18. (Derrick Perkins/The Western News)
Chad Benson, superintendent of the Kootenai National Forest, speaks with the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners via videoconferencing software on Aug. 18. (Derrick Perkins/The Western News)
Crews chip fuels near the South Yaak Fire earlier this month. (Kootenai National Forest via InciWeb)
Officials with the team overseeing the Burnt Peak and South Yaak fires pushed back on rumors that crews were slow walking firefighting efforts earlier this week.
“There was a rumor going around that the teams, the fire teams, are milking the fire,” said Sam Hicks of the Great Basin Incident Management Team No...
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