Hundreds of firefighters continue to battle fire on Mount Jupiter

More than 400 firefighters from around the state and country are working to contain the fire that ignited just west of Brinnon last week.

BRINNON, Wash. — Hundreds of firefighters are in the depths of the Olympic Peninsula battling a fire on Mount Jupiter, just west of the small town of Brinnon in Jefferson County.

There’s no such things as days off when you’re the fire chief. 

“There was fire behavior that I’ve never seen before,” said Brinnon Fire Department Chief Tim Manly. “With the 30 mile an hour winds that were hitting that mountain side, it actually turned the nighttime sky orange with that cloud cover above

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