The Nation - News from Sept. 1, 1988
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Roaring wildfires across the West, outside Alaska, went over the 1 million-acre mark for the first time in drought-parched 1988. Another 2 million acres continued to burn harmlessly in vast Alaska’s remote interior. With two new fires in Montana and another in Washington, 65 major blazes were aflame over 1,055,410 acres in 11 Western states, the Boise Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, the nation’s firefighting headquarters, said.
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