About 100 firefighters converged on Glacier National Park in Montana on Wednesday as a blazing wildfire forced the evacuation of nearby campgrounds, a hotel and a small summer resort town.
The Reynolds Creek Wildland fire, which was moving quickly across a mountainside covered with heavy timber, had spread more than 2,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s late July and it’s hot and it’s dry, so when you have an ignition source, it’ll spread,” said Andy Huntsberger, leader of the Interagency Incident Command Team, which includes personnel from more than half a dozen fire departments in and around the park.