‘Significant’ amounts of lightning with Monday’s storms spark wildfires across Idaho
Smoke from regional wildfires casts a haze over downtown Boise in late July. Even more fires were ignited Monday by lightning associated with storms that blew through Southwest Idaho. DARIN OSWALD doswald@idahostatesman.com
Hundreds of lightning strikes in Idaho ignited new wildfires Monday as storms passed through the region, according to the National Weather Service.
Officials said five new fires were burning in the Boise Bureau of Land Management area, nine in the Payette National Forest and 20 in the Boise National Forest.
“We’re stretched a little thin,” BLM Boise spokesperson Chad Cline said. “But nothing that we haven’t done before.”
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