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8 p.m. Update: Better weather conditions help some Montana firefighters

HELENA nday, while other fires closer to the central part of the state continued to spread and threaten rural residences.

After most fires grew on Saturday because of warm, windy conditions, Sunday's weather brought at least cooler temperatures across the state.

"We were hoping that today would not be so active and that's the way things have been working out," Brad Purdy, spokesman for a complex of fires burning in the Kootenai National Forest near the Idaho border, said Sunday afternoon.

Purdy said conditions improved so much on one fire burning south of Libby that fire managers on Sunday...

 

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