Cooler weather eases burden of Medfra Fire

The state’s first major wildfire of the year near McGrath has grown to nearly 10,500 acres. But efforts to fight the Medfra fire on Thursday are being helped by cooler, wetter weather.
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The smoke plume from the Medfra Fire as seen on Monday, May 30, 2016. (Photo by Robert McCormick/Alaska Fire Service)Tim Mowry is the public information officer with the Division of Forestry.
“The good news is the fire did receive a lot of rain, it started raining around 1