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the end of the day it had tripled in size.|Updated Aug 6, 1996

The forest fire that twice burned in the Jefferson Wilderness has been controlled after scorching 3,648 acres, about 1,968 acres in wilderness managed by the Deschutes National Forest and 1,680 acres on lands of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. The cigarette-sparked fire was first reported on July 8 burning in very difficult terrain above a lava flow near Candle Creek. It was contained by July 14 at 1,200 acres. Then the humidity dropped to less than 10percent and the fire wandered to a point where afternoon winds blew... Full story