Wildfire burning in Blaine County

More than 70 firefighters are working to contain a 600-acre wildfire in southern Blaine County, the federal Bureau of Land Management said this morning.

The fire apparently began Tuesday night during a lightning storm, said Craig Flentie, spokesman with the bureau's Lewistown office. Dubbed the Coal fire, the blaze is moving to the southeast and is in a remote area of breaks-type terrain, Flentie said.

"It's primarily on BLM land. There is very little private land involved and the fire is moving in a southeasterly direction, pushing it even further into BLM land," he said.

Fire crews from the...