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  Fire officials give landscaping credit for saving many homes

  The Foothills north of Eagle looked like a blackened lunar landscape Thursday, except for dozens of green plots with houses on them on the hillsides.

  While the vast majority of around 50 homes in the area north of Homer Road survived the fast-moving range fire Wednesday, four did not.

  Fire officials say it is impossible to tell exactly why those homes were consumed by fire, but a few factors may have contributed:

• Eagle Fire Burnout Fund accepts donations for fire survivors

  Eagle Fire Burnout Fund accepts donations for fire survivors

  Anyone who wishes to help the families who lost their homes in Thursday's wildfire may make donations to the Eagle Fire Burnout Fund, said Boise Fire Department spokeswoman Lynn Hightower.

  Please make checks payable to the Eagle Fire Burnout Fund. Checks can be mailed or brought to Eagle Fire Station 1, 966 E. Iron Eagle Dr., Eagle, ID 83616.

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  Firefighters gain footing on Idaho wildfires

  A wildfire burning on about 1,300 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in central Idaho was mostly contained Monday, but crews remained cautious with warmer temperatures expected later this week.

  Firefighters had contained only about a third of the Hurd fire on Sunday, but officials reported Monday that 70 percent of the blaze had been squelched amid lower temperatures, intermittent rain and the occasional snow flurry.

  Federal land agencies have spent more than $5 million on efforts to put out the wildfire that has charred two square miles, threatened houses and forced hundreds to evacuate in the Tamarack Resort area.

• Idaho National Laboratory range fire is largest ever at site -- 109,000 acres and still burning

  Idaho National Laboratory range fire is largest ever at site -- 109,000 acres and still burning

  A range fire that began Tuesday at the Idaho National Laboratory has burned more than 109,000 acres, including Bureau of Land Management, state and private land, and is the largest fire ever at the Eastern Idaho lab site, INL officials said Wednesday afternoon.

  About 300 firefighters from INL and the Bureau of Land Management are at the scene. They hope to have fire contained Thursday and under control Friday.

  The good news is that no one has been injured, and only a few structures have had minimal damage. Some power lines at the lab have been affected by the fire, which is still burning through sagebrush north of the lab site.

• Storms that moved through Treasure Valley Thursday weren't as bad as feared

  Storms that moved through Treasure Valley Thursday weren't as bad as feared

  The big storm of Aug. 26 didn’t turn out to be that big of a deal for the Boise area, as winds expected to reach speeds of 60 miles per hour never materialized.

  In fact, the fastest wind recorded by the National Weather Service in Boise was 35 mph at the Boise Airport, just before 9 p.m.

  Unlike Saturday’s storm, where wind gusts were measured as high as 68 mph in Boise and led to a city full of downed tree limbs, Thursday’s storm didn’t cause too many problems.

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