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SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST— Mother Nature helped firefighters get the upper hand on the Bezhik Fire last week, but not before the blaze impacted some private property owners in the area. While …

BWCAW wildfire 50% contained The fire, which started with a lightning strike on Monday, grew rapidly on Tuesday due to warm, dry and windy conditions. Written By: Forum News Service | 5:25 pm, May 22, 2021 ELY, Minn. -- Half of the 950-acre Bezhik Lake wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been contained as of Saturday morning. The fire, which started with a lightning strike on Monday, grew rapidly on Tuesday due to warm, dry and windy conditions and late...

BWCAW wildfire 50% contained The fire, which started with a lightning strike on Monday, grew rapidly on Tuesday due to warm, dry and windy conditions. Written By: Forum News Service | 5:25 pm, May 22, 2021 ELY, Minn. -- Half of the 950-acre Bezhik Lake wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been contained as of Saturday morning. The fire, which started with a lightning strike on Monday, grew rapidly on Tuesday due to warm, dry and windy conditions and late...

BWCAW wildfire 50% contained The fire, which started with a lightning strike on Monday, grew rapidly on Tuesday due to warm, dry and windy conditions. Written By: Forum News Service | 5:25 pm, May 22, 2021 ELY, Minn. -- Half of the 950-acre Bezhik Lake wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been contained as of Saturday morning. The fire, which started with a lightning strike on Monday, grew rapidly on Tuesday due to warm, dry and windy conditions and late...

ELY - A fire in the Boundary Waters Area Canoe Wilderness, which initially sent smoke plumes into the skies, calmed to a smoldering blaze drifting with the wind on an overcast Thursday. “The intensity of the fire has been knocked down,” Superior National Forest spokesperson Tim Engrav told the Mesabi Tribune in a phone interview. “It’s not growing.” The blaze, named the Bezhik Fire, started on Monday. It burned beneath red and white pines across 10 acres in the La Croix...

Very dry conditions continue, but rain later in week should help.