SPIRIT LAKE — Teen brothers Elliott and Riley Hughes couldn’t resist getting a sneak peek of airplanes and a helicopter battling a wildfire near Spirit Lake on Friday.

“We saw the smoke so we wanted to see what was going on,” Elliott said with an excited voice.

The boys rode their bikes down a one-way dirt road to the staging area for the ground fire crews, but were asked to turn back for their safety.

The fire in a remote area between Spirit Lake and Athol west of Clagstone Road and north of Eagle Drive was near the dirt road and grew to 12 acres in the afternoon.

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