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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Lincoln County EDC director Margie Hall captured what was dubbed the Watermelon Hill Fire from south of Cheney looking southwest toward Sprague at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19.
With extremely hot temperatures in the preceding days, the Odessa area should probably be considered lucky to have had only one fire which was contained after about five hours.
With all the news about the Carlton Complex fire in the north Cascades and the Buzzard Complex in eastern Oregon, apparently both started by lightning in many places and now being treated as fire complexes, people are a bit on edge and are following the news closely. The weather has been hot and windy, so the fires are almost impossible to contain.
As of now, the weather is cooler and there is a light rain falling.
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