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Havre Daily News staff
With one fire already started and extinguished in the area, National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for this region Thursday through Friday.
Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation firefighters successfully contained and extinguished a fire on the reservation Sunday, keeping it to 6.6 acres in a wind that could have made it spread rapidly.
Weather Service says in its watch that high winds and low humidity will make fires easily started and difficult to contain during the period of the watch, from Thursday afternoon through Friday evening.
The watch includes Blaine, Chouteau, Hill and Liberty counties as well as eastern Glacier, Toole and central, eastern Pondera and Fergus counties as well as Lewis and Clark National Forest Rocky Mountain District and central and eastern Lewis and Clark National Forest areas
The watch says southwest winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph and humidity as low as 14 percent are expected in the region.
The report says a fire weather watch means that critical fire weather conditions are possible. A combination of gusty winds, low relative humidity and warm temperatures will create high fire growth potential.
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