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<p>This aerial view shows the Hammer Creek Fire, foreground, burning along the South Fork of the Flathead River, and the Big Salmon Lake Fire burning at left in the distance.</p>

<p>This aerial view shows the Hammer Creek Fire, foreground, burning along the South Fork of the Flathead River, and the Big Salmon Lake Fire burning at left in the distance.</p>

August 18, 2011

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Fires churning away
August 18, 2011 7 a.m.

Fires churning away

Wildfires in the Bob Marshall Wilderness have spread rapidly over the last couple of days, and an aerial burnout operation is planned today on a fire burning just outside the wilderness southeast of Swan Lake.