“The fire could make large runs again if the winds were to increase above 25 miles an hour,” she said. “However, we don’t currently have winds in our forecast, and we are continuing to get increased moisture.”
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Hot, dry weather and strong winds from the east allowed the fire to quickly grow into a conflagration coming down the mountainside and threatening the towns of Index, Baring, Grotto, and Skykomish Saturday.“The wind is settling down, it’s only at about five to six miles an hour coming out of the Northwest. Our relative humidities have come up — they’re near 87% — and we’ve got cooler temperatures,” said Rachel Lipsky, a public information officer with the Northwest Incident Management Team 8.
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