Character Complex fires continue to grow

PRICHARD — Fires to the left, fires to the right — the city of Prichard is certainly stuck in the middle of the ever growing Character Complex fires.

Responsible for burning over 2,300 acres of combined mountainous forest land and lowering the Silver Valley's air quality to sometimes unhealthy levels, the Deceitful and Prichard fires (together making up the Character Complex) have been causing all sorts of havoc in Shoshone County since the July 7 lightning storm...