By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Four firefighters from a south Thurston County fire district are among those still battling a wildfire north of Chelan that is now estimated to have scorched almost 6,500 acres.
The so-called Antoine Creek Fire is about 50 percent contained, according to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center.
The increase in acreage is due more to accurate mapping than the fire spreading, the agency reported this morning.
West Thurston Regional Fire Authority Lt. Lanette Dyer said a crew of three with a brush truck and another individual in a pickup truck were called over there on Sunday night. They checked in yesterday, but don’t know when they might be released, she said.
Three firefighters from Lewis County Fire District 5 departed Sunday as well to assist.
They are among more than 300 firefighters working to put out the wildfire that is burning grass and light timber on private, state and federal lands.
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