Reinforcements Arrive to Battle Unchecked Glacier Wildfire

Firefighters reinforced by additional manpower, equipment and an elite management team attempted to check an uncontained wildfire tearing through Montana’s Glacier National Park

In this Sunday, June 28, 2015 photo provided by The Wenatchee World, U.S. Forest Service firefighters from Leavenworth cut brush near houses in northern Wenatchee, Wash. Don Seabrook/The Wenatchee World via AP

HELENA, Mont.—Firefighters reinforced by additional manpower, equipment and an elite management team attempted to check an uncontained wildfire tearing through Montana’s Glacier National Park, while the growth of a blaze outside California’s wine country slowed enough to allow some evacuated residents to return home.

Both fires have been feeding off tinder-dry conditions in the drought-ravaged states. Strong wind gusts pushed the Montana blaze through Glacier’s conifer-topped ridges, and erratic winds only compounded the problems firefighters in Northern California had in scrambling through the steep, brush-choked terrain.

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