WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) -- Firefighters have dug containment lines around about 75 percent of a wildfire that has blackened about 500 acres of timberland near Pearrygin Lake, in north-central Washington northeast of Winthrop, authorities said Monday evening.
Koshare Lomnicki, a spokeswoman for the interagency government team fighting the fire, said about 130 people battled the fire Monday, including two helicopters from the state Department of Natural Resources and aerial tankers from Canada.
She said the helicopters were dipping water from Pearrygin Lake.
No injuries were reported, and no structures or campgrounds were threatened. The fire was reported about 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
The fire is believed to be human-caused, but the cause has not been determined, Lomnicki said.
