TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) _ A second night of rain helped crews come closer to containing the wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes atop Mount Lemmon, officials said Sunday.
``It really looks good today. The smoke is pretty well gone and containment is holding at 85 percent,'' said Marsha Cooper, a fire information officer with the team fighting the 84,750-acre fire in the Santa Catalina Mountains.
The blaze, which destroyed 340 buildings, started on June 17, and crews hope to have it fully contained by Tuesday evening. A $5,000 reward has been offered for information about the fire, believed to have been human-caused.
In southwestern Colorado, residents were being allowed to return home Sunday after being evacuated from six homes near Telluride, fire spokesman Lew French said.
The Telluride fire had covered 120 acres and was 75 percent contained by firebreaks Sunday.
Two campgrounds in Wyoming were evacuated late Saturday because of a wildfire fanned by hot, dry weather in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
The fire, 23 miles south of Jackson, Wyo., started Saturday afternoon, and authorities believed it was human-caused, forest spokeswoman Mary Lendman said. It had covered about 300 acres by late Saturday.
Elsewhere, a fire near Yakima, Wash., nearly tripled in size overnight to 1,200 acres Sunday morning, said David Widmark, spokesman for the Northwest Interagency Coordinating Center in Portland, Ore.
People were evacuated from 40 buildings west of Tampico, Wash., on Friday but were allowed to return home hours later. However, they remained on alert Sunday in case another evacuation becomes necessary, Widmark said. No homes or buildings had been lost.
