PHOTOS: It wasn’t long after a fire near Calder was contained Saturday when another nearby blaze caused crews and air tankers to be dispatched to the St. Joe Forest more than 50 miles southeast of Coeur d’Alene.
After burning about 40 acres in an active logging job in the St. Joe River drainage east of St. Maries, the Mica Creek Fire was 100 percent contained, mostly with the aid of hand crews, tanker trucks and logging equipment. By Monday crews were mopping up.
Meanwhile, the Lick Creek Fire, near Avery, was burning hot Monday, according to the Forest Service. Air tankers and smaller fixed-wing planes over the weekend dumped repellent on the 200-acre Lick Creek fire burning in heavy logging slash and timber about six miles south-southwest of Avery, in the Lick Creek drainage.