The Nation - News from July 18, 1988

More than 1,300 firefighters struggled in blistering heat against a series of Alaskan wildfires that have burned 554,800 acres in a month with containment nowhere in sight. In the West, eight forest fires continued to burn out of control over 10,000 acres of timber in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and a lightning-caused blaze in southeastern Montana’s Custer National Forest has burned 15,800 acres. Three fires in Arizona’s Saguaro National Monument near Tucson have been contained. But, with the continued dry and hot weather in the West, fire officials throughout the area were apprehensive.