Area firefighters respond to wildfire south of Turnbull

Local fire crews battled what appeared to be a lightning-caused fire that began Sunday about eight miles south of Cheney and two miles south of the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge along Cheney Plaza Road.

State Department of Natural Resources spokesman Guy Gifford said 17 engines, two hand crews — one 10-person crew and one 20-person crew — along with a helicopter, two single-engine air tankers and other personnel responded to the fire that consumed 123 acres of grass, brush and ponderosa pine between Chapman Lake and north Badger Lake. Responders included crews from the refuge and units fro...