Firefighters battling blazes in Blaine County

Blaine County saw several of fires crop up Thursday night, most of them in the southern part of the county, the apparent result of a lightning storm.

Last night also saw a small fire in Beaver Creek Park that has since been extinguished.

Blaine County Commissioner Frank DePriest said most of the information he has on the fire is second-hand and somewhat vague at this point but as far as he's heard most of the fires were in the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, which responded to them with helicopters.

DePriest said the largest fire was in Bullwhacker Coulee, and two plumes of smok...