Boise Fire update: 2500 acres, still burning

30 June 2016 (12:54 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

Fire investigators now consider the illegal use of fireworks as the cause of a fire that’s now burned more than 1-thousand and 12 hectares (2-thousand 5-hundred acres).

The ‘Table Rock’ fire started about midnight, near the Wild Horse subdivision, but stopped short of the Harris Ranch residential subdivision.  As soon as daylight came airstrikes were launched by water dropping helicopters, R/C drones should not be flown in the affected area.  The fire departments of Eagle, Meridian, Star and Boise, along with federal Bureau of Land Management, confronted the blaze.  The fire is 60% contained.