Residential evacuations were ordered south of Boise on Thursday evening as a wildfire sparked and pushed northwest, the Bureau of Land Management Idaho reported.
At 7:45 p.m., residents near South Pleasant Valley Road and West Thompson Road were urged to leave because of a grass fire named the Range Fire. People near South Pleasant Valley Road and Interstate 84 south of Blacks Creek Road were placed on a warning to prepare to evacuate if needed, according to the Ada County Sheriff’s Office.
The Range Fire had already burned more than 8,000 acres…