Washington State has three fires due to the high temperatures and below normal snow pack
An aerial photo of the Paradise Fire shows smoke rising near the Queets River Sunday in the Olympic National Park.
The Paradise fire is 12 miles from the trailhead and about 1,000 acres have burnt so far.
Helicopters have been brought in to help battle a wildfire in rugged terrain in Olympic National Park in northwest Washington state.
The U.S. Forest Service says 18 firefighters and two helicopters performing bucket water drops were attempting Monday to slow the progress of the blaze on the north side of the Queets River.
The fire, burning13 miles north/northeast of Quinault in the Olympic National Park, was sparked by lightning.
Authorities say no property or people were threatened because the remote location of the fire.
Fire officials say smoke jumpers who had been staffing the fire were released on Sunday since the fire has spread into an area that is inaccessible.
"We are doing everything possible to minimize the fire's spread, but right now we do not have many options," said Todd Rankin, the park's Fire Management Officer. "Traditional suppression tactics do not work in this fuel type since the fire spread is occurring in the forest canopy, not on the ground."
Fire officials say lichens, growing high in the tree tops, are catching fire and carrying the flames from tree to tree.
Fire officials say fire behavior analysts have determined that this is the Olympic Peninsula's driest year since 1951, the year of the Forks Fire. The Forks fire burned nearly 38,000 acres in one day.
Two other fires are burning in the state.
In North Cascades National Park, a lightning-caused fire is 60 percent contained and has burned more than 100 acres.
A third fire was sparked by helicopter crash last month. It has burned 85 acres in the Colville National Forest and is 95 percent contained.