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|  | A Hot Summer Gets Hotter Wildfires sweep across 10 western states, consuming more than 375,000 acres of wilderness
An air tanker flies past a towering plume of smoke from the Werner fire burning near Whitefish, Mont., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2001. The fire was started on Tuesday by lightning and has burned about 500 acres. |  |