Calmer winds slow growth of Minnesota wildfire

Associated Press: Calmer winds, cooler temperatures and a few moments of sleet and light snow brought encouragement Wednesday as firefighters continued efforts to contain a blaze that was in a "pause mode" -- days after it moved at breakneck speeds, swallowing nearly 160 square miles of forest along the Minnesota-Canada border. The fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is one of the largest on record in the state, and just under half of the access points into the wilderness were closed to campers by......

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