OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — If rainfall rolls in starting today as weather watchers forecast, Mother Nature could be the firefighting force needed to bring the four-week-old Griff Peak blaze to a smoldering end.
“It does appear that the weather is changing in our favor,” Olympic National Park spokeswoman Barb Maynes said Sunday.
The AccuWeather forecast (“weather” button at left) predicts rain showers through Thursday as a storm system approaches the North Olympic Peninsula’s West End.
Because of moister conditions in higher elevations Sunday, two helicopters that dropped more than 45,000 gallons of water the day before were called off of the blaze.
The copters flew on to fight other larger fires in the state, Maynes said.
—————
The rest of the story appears in the Monday Peninsula Daily News.
