Some rain did fall Wednesday on a separate fire burning near Boulder, Colorado, according to the National Weather Service.

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Although spring weather had come, the watchman still kept a fire burning in a tin pan to warm his feet and to give a center to the group that gathered there.

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More than 170 fires are burning in New South Wales, as lightning strikes cause more blazes amid hot and windy weather.

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