Crews boost lines ahead of winds
Wildfire smoke blocks the view at Sandpoint City Beach.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
BONNERS FERRY — With winds kicking up throughout the day, Northern Rockies Team 1 crews were preparing to hold the line in what looked to be a long night on the Upper Smith Fire, officials said Saturday afternoon.
"Yeah, it's going to be a fight today," Trevor Unsworth, Northern Rockies Team 1 operations section chief, said in a briefing posted to the Idaho Panhandle National Forest Facebook page early Saturday evening. "The winds are blowing super hard up there."