BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Firefighting planes and about 50 fire
trucks, engines, water tenders and brush rigs have been dispatched
to put out a grassfire that's burning northwest of Boise.

The fire, reported early Wednesday afternoon, is burning north
of the town of Eagle near State Highway 16, near several
residential structures.

But Lynn Hightower, a Boise Fire Department spokeswoman, says
structure protection crews appear to have kept fire away from
threatened homes.

In addition to this blaze, another 100-acre grassfire was
burning Wednesday between Boise and Mountain Home in the
southwestern Idaho desert.

Also, the National Interagency Fire Center reports that the
Teapot Dome fire, some 10 miles east of Mountain Home, has expanded
to 600 acres, but was 60 percent contained.


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