Wildfires Force Evacuations in Montana

World | August 17, 2003, Sunday // 00:00
Wildfires Force Evacuations in Montana A large curtain of smoke billows in Montana,US where a dozen of wildfires started August 16 and are still out of control. Photo by AP

Hundreds of homes in the US state of Montana were evacuated as most of the wildfires that started Saturday still remain uncontrolled. Two dozen major fires started August 16 and most of them were started by lightning. The fires cover almost 200,000 acres. "The statewide situation got more intense since last night. This is a pretty desperate sutiation," US fire official Scott Vail said Sunday.

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