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The Antelope Fire in Yellowstone National Park continues to burn and has grown to 3,048 acres.

The road between the Tower Fall Store and Chittenden Road (Mt. Washburn Lookout road) is still closed due to morning and evening smoke inversions and the safety of firefighters working in the area, according to the park. The Tower Store closes for the season at noon today.

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There was minimal fire activity on Thursday with the exception of a pocked of lodgepole regeneration and very little burning continues in the interior of the fire, according to the park.

"Fire crews and helicopters will be working to contain the southeast corner of the fire. The remaining perimeter is unlikely to show activity, but monitors and lookouts will be in place
during the burn period. Objectives call for full containment in the next few days, utilizing minimum impact techniques such as wetting down only the areas that are still smoking after the fire has burned out along a natural barrier," the park said in a news release.

The Antelope Fire was discovered Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 14 near the Mount Washburn Fire Lookout. A lightning strike started the fire in an area of sage and grass on the northeast slope of Mount Washburn, between Antelope Creek and the Yellowstone River. The fire has spread through an area burned in the 1988 North Fork Fire, where the fuels include lodgepole pine, tall dry grass and abundant downed logs.

The fire was 30 percent contained on Friday morning.