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Crews battle Bezhik Fire in BWCAW

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 District of the BWCAW, about 15 mile northwest of Ely. The fire spread to 950 acres and was at 10 percent containment on Thursday afternoon, Superior National Forest officials said.

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