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About two dozen wilderness firefighters are shuttling regularly across lower Green River Lake to help corral the Dollar Lake Fire as it burns through steep country toward Squaretop Mountain.

Two teams specializing in wilderness fire strategy assembled Sunday to boat and hike into the popular recreation area on the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Their deployment marks a new front on the blaze that’s covered 19,087 acres since it was discovered Aug. 21 along a dirt road heavily used for car and van camping.

Firefighters have not determined the cause of the blaze, according to the Forest Service.

“Extracting folks out of there, if something were to

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