Lightning caused fire began on July 12 in very rocky, steep, dangerous terrain - basically an avalanche shoot - about two miles into the wilderness. It had been monitored and some helicopter water bucket load dropped on the edges nearing more fuel. This weekend the wind came up A LOT, it grew from over 2000 acres to over 4000 acres quickly and started spot fires on ridges both north and south of it. I personally think it did a lot good reducing fuels, but now it is nearing private property so they are more aggressively working at putting it out. To read more about it see InciWeb Fire Information for the Kootenai Fire.